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Born September 27, 1860
Died September 17, 1906

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MEMORIAL VOLUME

Prepared in accordance with a resolution of the Board of Direc-
tors of The North Carolina State Normal and Industrial College
and under the direction of the following Committee of the Faculty :

Wiujam C. Smith,

Vioi,a Boddie,

Mary Settle Sharpe.

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"Happy he
Who to his rest is borne,
In sure and certain hope,
Before the hand of age
Hath chilled his faculties,
Or sorrow reached him in his heart of hearts!
Most happy if he leave in his good name
A light for those who follow him,
And in his works a living seed
Of good, prolific still."

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CONTENTS

For more complete table of contents see latter part of this volume.

Page

A Noble Career Ended. Press Accounts ... 7-15
Eulogy by Hon. William Jennings Bryan. 17-27

Laid to Rest. Press Accounts 30-32

Funeral Sermon 33-42

Press Tributes 43-126

Memorials and Memorial Exercises 127-181

Memorial Addresses 129-162

Governor's Proclamation 163-164

Resolutions 182-213

Personal Tributes 214-257

Biographical Sketch 258-281

"The most important civil institution in the State is a public
school. No man can really believe in a republican form Of government
who does not base his political philosophy upon the intelligence and
right training of all the people. * * * The chief factors of any
civilization are its homes and its primary schools. Homes and primary
schools are made by women rather than by men. No State which
will once educate its mothers need have any fear about future
illiteracy." * * *

"Sometimes we think it is a pity that a good man who has learned
to be of service to his fellows should be called out of the world. So
sometimes we may think about an enterprising and useful generation;
but, after all, the generations of men are but relays in civilization's
march on its journey from savagery to the millennium. Each genera-
tion owes it to the past and to the future that no previous worthy
attainment or achievement, whether of thought or deed or vision, shall
be lost. It is also under the highest obligation to make at least as
much progress on the march as has been made by any generation

that has gone before."

CHARLES DUNCAN McIVER.

A NOBLE CAREER SUDDENLY

ENDED

From Press Correspondence, oy Andrew Joyner

The tour of William J. Bryan through North Caro-
lina began yesterday afternoon (September 17, 1906)
with the departure of his special train for Greensboro
accompanied by a large party of prominent citizens.
The trip to Greensboro started auspiciously, but was
saddened just as the train left Durham by the death of
Dr. Charles D. Mclver, the leading educator and most
useful citizen of North Carolina. Beside a mechan-
ical throb of the pulse as we laid him down there
was no movement whatever of a muscle or a nerve,
the calmness of death and its grand dignity of repose
marking his features from the very first. It was apo-
plexy, sure, swift and sudden, and he lay there until
Greensboro was reached as if in a sweet and restful
sleep.

Not one on the rear car knew of what was passing,
and that while they were enjoying the sweet converse
of congenial thought, social or political, that the soul
of the life of the crowd but a few moments before had
taken its flight. "When the awful intelligence was com-
municated, there was a scene never to be forgotten as
weeping men rushed through the fast moving train

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across the vestibule to the dead comrade's side, help-
less, stunned, paralyzed with sorrow. Whatever may
be Mr. Bryan's hold on himself, he lost it then. Like
a lion he rushed through, less speedy friends exclaim-
ing : ' ' It cannot be ! Oh, it cannot be ! " and reaching
the bier, he knelt down and caressed the dead hands
and was gently led away weeping.

At Hillsboro a large crowd had assembled to hear
Mr. Bryan, and this station was reached just as all
had become acquainted with the sad event. Here tele-
grams were sent, and standing in the rear of the train
Governor Glenn, as Mr. Bryan stood there with bowed
head, the object of every eye, told the people of the
occurrence, and they stood silent and awed, uttering
no sound as the train moved off.

At Burlington there was an immense gathering and
it had been arranged for Mr. Bryan to speak in a
pavilion near by. Governor Glenn again imparted the
sad news. The people seemed unable to comprehend.
Soon they began to leave and crowd around the rear
platform of the car. Standing there with head bared
Mr. Bryan said :

' ' I am sure that you will agree with me that this
is not the time or occasion for a political speech or any
other speech when I tell you that just after we left
Durham, one of our party, Dr. Charles D. Mclver,
suddenly died. He was the man who first invited me
to North Carolina twelve years ago, and I have never
been in your State since, but he was found on the
reception committee and the first to greet and cheer

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me. And when I recently reached New York from
abroad, Dr. Mclver was there to greet me and again
to invite me to North Carolina.

"His life, perhaps more than that of any man I
know as well, illustrates the value of an ideal. He was
an educated man whose sympathies were ever with the
uneducated. He moved in and adorned the highest
circles, yet snapped the golden chord in unselfishly
lifting others up, and he devoted that life to bringing
blessings to the poor and less favored than he. His
death is a loss, a fearful loss to his country, his State,
his city of Greensboro, to the glorious institution of
learning which is now so suddenly become his endur-
ing and sanctifying monument, to his family, to his
church, his party, and a grievous personal loss to me.
I bid you all a sad good-by.

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From The Daily Industrial News, Greensboro

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Charles D. Mclver is dead" — as a pall this sen-
tence fell upon Greensboro yesterday afternoon. And
not to Greensboro alone, but to the entire State is the
loss — not alone to the State but to the entire educa-
tional world. For Dr. Mclver had made for himself
a place in his chosen field of work that cannot be filled.
To the education of the South, especially the women
of the South, he had devoted his life.

Coming from the University, he taught in the public
schools, coming from the schools to the State Normal
and Industrial College while that Institution was yet

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an unrealized thought — he was its godfather. Over
its infancy he watched with tenderest care. Through
its childhood he planned and labored for its upbuild-
ing with all the power of his commanding ability and
tireless energy. All those whom he had gathered
around him in the work, he imbued with his own
enthusiasm, and largely as the result of the labor and
the love of this one man has arisen the wonderful
Institution of today.

But though the Normal College was the dearest
child of his endeavor, he did not confine himself to it
alone. Every public measure promising good appealed
to him and received his hearty support. The campaign
for better rural schools found in Doctor Mclver a
champion second to none in loyal love or effective
assistance. In the movement inaugurated by the
Southern Education Board he was the commanding
figure. His was the brain from which sprang the idea
of the reunion of former North Carolinians. His was
the hand that guided it to a successful conclusion. In
all things that he undertook, many and varied though
they were, success crowned his efforts; for his heart
was in his work.

Through his work will he live in the history of North
Carolina, but even aside from his work, he will not be
forgotten by the multitude who called him friend. He
is gone with much already accomplished, and yet with
apparently much still before. In the prime of man-
hood he was suddenly stricken and taken from the field
of useful endeavor — dead but not forgotten.

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Of him might well be said what Scott so beautifully
wrote of one who bore the same blood as he, and with
but the change of a name we repeat the lines :

"He is gone on the mountain,

He is lost to the forest,
Like a summer-dried fountain,

When our need was the sorest.
The foni, reappearing,

From the rain drops shall borrow,
But to us comes no cheering,

To Mclver no morrow.

"The hand of the reaper

Takes the ears that are hoary,
But the voice of the weeper

Wails manhood in glory;
The autumn winds rushing

Waft the leaves that are searest,
But our flower was in flushing

When blighting was nearest.

"Fleet foot on the correi,

Sage counsel in cumber,
Eed hand in the foray,

How sound is thy slumber!
Like the dew on the mountain,

Like the foam on the river,
Like the bubble on the fountain,

Thou art gone and forever I"

Yes, gone in the body and gone from the sight of
mortal eyes, and yet not wholly gone, for never will
his memory fade from the minds and hearts of those

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who love humanity and love those who loved humanity,
and of such in the fullest measure was Charles Duncan
Mclver.

Editorial in Greensboro Record

Not only has Greensboro and the State, but the
Nation as well, sustained a severe loss in the death of
Dr. Charles D. Mclver, President of the State Normal
and Industrial College in this place. The particulars
of his untimely end are found elsewere today.

Men — great men — die every day, but their places
are soon filled and they are almost forgotten, but it
is no exaggeration to say that to fill his place as Presi-
dent of this great Institution will be a task of difficult
proportions. Men to operate and successfully con-
duct the College will be found, but to measure up with
the late President is another matter. His life was con-
secrated to the work; he it was who first agitated the
establishment of the School — a School to enable woman
to become independent. He was its first and only
President. The writer knows that the most flatter-
ing offers were made him to connect himself with other
institutions, the first being the presidency of the Uni-
versity at Chapel Hill, but he put them all behind
him.

His forte was not only in managing the College,
but in keeping it always at the forefront ; in building
it up and enlarging it. He was an aggressive man,
yet did he have an enemy ? Never ! Critics there were
plenty, but so open and above board were his methods

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that even these could but admire him. He used no
halfway measures; what was worth doing was with
him worth doing with all his might. Politicians
sought his overthrow, but he gave them no heed; his
sole aim was the welfare of his beloved Institution.
How well he succeeded need not be told ; it is a lasting
monument to his memory.

He was a lovable man, a man of originality; his
methods were decidedly original, and equipped with
the strong arm of justice, he swept all opposition
before him whenever and wherever the College was
concerned. Every one of the thousands of young
women who attended "The Normal" loved him; he
made their lives pleasant; his great aim was to make
the poorest girl, the friendless girl, feel that she was
at home ; that poverty was an honor if honorably worn.

But Dr. Mclver's work was not by any means con-
fined to the Institution over which he presided so ably ;
he was prominently identified with educational work
throughout the country, having for many years been
an honored member of the Southern Education Board,
while he was perhaps among the first to agitate local
taxation for school purposes, and the increasingly large
number of school houses that now dot the State can be
attributed to his zeal and indefatigable work.

When all these things are recognized it becomes
apparent that his loss is national.

Truly has a great man fallen.

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Editorial in Greensboro Telegram

It seems almost impossible to believe that Dr.
Mclver is dead. It is quite impossible to fully realize
all that the death of such a man means to the com-
munity, to the State, and to the Nation — for the
influence of Charles D. Mclver was bounded only by
national lines.

A man of the intensest activity, we can hardly think
of him as being cold and still in death. He did not
know how to be half-hearted or lukewarm in anything.
What he did, he did energetically, strenuously. He
spoke, even in conversation with a single person, with
the same vigor and energy. And this is but another
way of paying him the highest compliment possible
by accrediting him with being absolutely and always
true to his convictions.

The debt that the womanhood of the State owe him
can never be paid. To him is to be traced in the last
analysis all the influences which have flown from the
Normal College for the uplift of North Carolina
women, for he was the Normal College in the sense
that it was his creation. He it was who both planned
and executed, overcoming seemingly insuperable
obstacles by his titanic energy and determination.
From first to last the Institution bore the impress of
his powerful personality and his influence will ever be
felt in its future history.

But the range of his sympathies included more than
the College he loved so well. He was as loyal to

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Greensboro as he was to the College. He planned
for his State. He loved the South. And he had as
firm convictions regarding the policy of the Nation
as a whole as he had in the other spheres of activity
in which he was so dominant a factor.

He was ever a loyal friend to the City of Greensboro.
He believed in it intensely. He was always ready to
do anything in his power to advance its interests.

His influence on the educational life of the State
will never be fully appreciated. Perhaps it is safe
to say that no man ever influenced it so decidedly.

In national and southern educational meetings he
was a central, commanding figure.

It is a common saying that any man's place can be
filled. But where will another Charles D. Mclver be
found?

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A NOBLE REQUIEM

From the Daily Industrial News

Seldom has a man had a grander requiem than Dr.
Mclver.

The eyes of the State were on Greensboro last night.
From near and far men and women had gathered
to hear words of public import fall from the lips of
one of the most remarkable men this country has ever
produced.

William Jennings Bryan, the trusted leader of mil-
lions of his fellow citizens, came to our city to speak.
He had intended to talk on the important public
questions of the day. But as a special train was bear-
ing him swiftly to our city, Dr. Mclver, who was of
the party, was suddenly stricken by the hand of death.

As if by common consent, the character of the
journey was altered. The assembled multitude
crowded the opera house, but over all there was a
hush as in the presence of death.

The great Nebraskan, who has so often swayed
thousands by his eloquence, with a thoughtful con-
sideration and tender courtesy that marks a kindly,
generous heart, pushed aside the political questions
with which his life has of late been crowded, and spoke
only of him who lay cold in death.

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Tenderly, touching and eloquently the words fell
from his lips and those who heard knew they came
from the heart.

The distinguished visitor and his hearers forgot
those things which push men asunder and remembered
the holy sorrow that draws all men together.

More than generous, more than gracious, truly noble,
was Mr. Bryan's address — a great man's eulogy upon
another great man, delivered before an audience that
loved them both.

EULOGY BY HON. WILLIAM JENNINGS BBYAN

Delivered in Greensboro on Monday Night,
September 17

I have come to North Carolina to take part in your
campaign. I came here because I felt that I owed
to your people a debt of gratitude so large that I
was under obligation to respond to any demand that
you might make upon me.

But, my friends, something has occurred since my
arrival in this State that makes it impossible for me
to gratify the expectations that brought you to this
hall, many of you from distant homes; and yet my
excuse is one that must appeal to every one of you.
There was one in this community at whose invitation
I visited your city twelve years ago. This was one
of the first States of the South with which I became
acquainted and it was through an invitation from Dr.
Charles Mclver that I came here. I have never come

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to North Carolina without seeing him. He has ahvays
greeted me with a smile, and when I landed in New
York the other day, after an absence of almost a year,
I found that he had traveled all the way from North
Carolina to add his greeting to the greetings extended
by other friends. And when I arrived this morning,
he was one of the first to meet me and we enjoyed
communion together until on our return, without a
moment's notice he was summoned to the world
beyond, and the latter part of the journey was made
with all that was mortal of this friend.

Do not expect me to make a political speech tonight.
My mind will not work along political lines. It
requires all my blood to supply my heart. There is
none left to make my brain active. All that I can say
to you tonight is to draw some lessons from a life
that impressed me as it must have impressed you, and
if any here wish to hear me on political subjects, I
will come again and talk to you when I can meet
your expectations. I could not do it tonight if you
demanded it of me.

There is something solemn in standing in the pres-
ence of death. I do not know that I have ever been
brought nearer to this mystery than I have been
brought today. To see one in the full enjoyment of
life, to see one entering with enthusiasm into all of
the exercises of the day, and then in a moment find
that the vital spark has disappeared, and that he lies
cold in death, is an experience that is rare for me, and
it is rare for the most of us. But I am sure this subject

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has come so near to each one of you in the death of
father or mother, wife or daughter, brother or sis-
ter, or friend, that there is not one here who will go
away and criticize me for surrendering to my feelings,
my personal feelings of friendship, rather than pre-
senting to you a political address.

I have traveled some, and I have come back to
America with a greater pride in my country than I
ever had before. There is no country on earth like
ours. I thought it before I left home ; I know it now.
Go where you will, in either hemisphere, on any con-
tinent, among any people, and you will not find a
people like the people of the United States. They
have all of the qualities that make a nation great,
and they have them to a degree that you do not find
in any other land, and the thing that impressed me
most was that my country is presenting an ideal of
human life to the world — the highest ideal that the
world has ever known. There is more altruism in the
United States than in any other country now known,
more than in any other country that history tells us
of. I have found evidences of this altruism every-
where. I have traveled, following the sun in its course,
over thousands of miles of the Orient, and in every
center I found some Americans or group of Americans,
who from disinterested love for the human race, were
holding up the light of American civilization, and
when I reached Bombay and addressed a school sup-
ported by American money, when I attended another
institution where little blind Indians were gathered

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together and taught by American money, I told them
that we might not be able to boast that the sun never
set upon our possessions, but that we could boast that
the sun never set upon American philanthropy; that
before it went down upon one center of civilization it
rose upon another. I learned to admire these people
with a mission, these people with a purpose, these peo-
ple who are willing to sacrifice themselves for the ben-
efit of others. And what I loved about our dead friend
was that he was measuring life by what he put into
the world and not by what he took out of the world.
If I were going to describe a successful life and con-
trast it with a selfish life; if I could illustrate it by
a picture drawn on canvas, I would present a stagnant
pool, gathering water from all around, and giving
forth nothing till at last it became a scene of disease
and death ; and then I would present on canvas a
living spring pouring forth constantly of that which
refreshes and invigorates. I would show that the stag-
nant pool represents a selfish, self-centered life, and
that the living spring represents an unselfish life, a
really successful life; and I look back upon the life
of Dr. Mclver as a spring overflowing with that which
refreshes and invigorates. He worked his way up.
He was an example of what can be done in this coun-
try. Laboring first to secure his education ; then going
out and teaching; then starting with a purpose to
establish a school for women, he had made his impress
upon the educational system of this State. When I was
last here he showed me a map on which he had

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marked places to show where the length of the school
term had been extended. He was trying to enlarge
the scope of education. He was trying to bring it
within the reach of more people. Why? Because he
loved the human race ; because he wanted to do some-
thing for them. He might have enjoyed himself at
home more than when he was off speaking. He might
have had the quiet of life when he was busy and active,
but there was within him something that demanded
that he should go forth and do something. He saw
the education of your women confined largely to the
class, that is, higher education, where it was expensive,
and as his heart was in sympathy with the poor and
the struggling, he wanted to make it possible for more
of them to get an education, and with that purpose he
secured the establishment of a school, and he presided
over it, and he gave his experience to it, until now he
has established a great institution here with between
five hundred and six hundred girls, and they are get-
ting an education, and he has made education so cheap
for them that people can now get it who could not
have afforded it before his work was done.

Who will measure the things done by such a man?
I have been in countries where education was scarcely
known. In India, where less than one per cent, of
the women can read and write, I looked upon one of
the most beautiful pieces of architecture in the world.
Many people think there is not on earth a building
that equals in beauty the Taj Mahal. It is a tomb that
a man reared to his wife whom he loved, and people

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who visit it marvel at its beauty. For more than three
hundred years it has stood there, the admiration of
all the world, and yet as I looked upon it, and then
looked around and saw how few of the women in that
community were able to read and write, how few of
them had ever had anything done for them, I asked
myself: " Would not this emperor have paid a higher
tribute to his wife, had he done something for woman-
hood, trying to lift woman up and make her lot easier
and her path brighter? Would he not have paid a
greater tribute to his wife than in building that splen-
did marble monument in the midst of destitution,
disease and despair?" Dr. Mclver chose the wiser
part. He paid his tribute to womanhood by trying to
bring happiness into a larger number of homes. Who
will measure the influence that he has exerted upon
this State? He is dead; in a few days his remains
will be consigned to the grave ; they will heap the dirt
up over him ; from time to time loving friends will go
and put flowers there, but, my friends, Dr. Mclver
still lives in the work that he has done. He has
touched the hearts of your people, and through their
hearts he will live on. Some time I think we over-
estimate the influence of the mind, and if there is not
something in education more than mental instruction,
it is sometimes a disappointment to those who have it,
and to their friends, but Dr. Mclver had behind his
intellectual enthusiasm a moral enthusiasm, and you
could not come into contact with his life, consecrated to
great work, without feeling that somehow there had

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been kindled in your own heart an enthusiasm like his.
What has he done ? How long will his influence be felt ?
Who can tell? Who will measure the influence that
heart can exert upon heart? You can measure the
influence that a body can exert upon a body. You can
measure the influence that a mind can exert upon a
mind, but who will measure the influence that a heart
can exert upon the heart of the human race? We
speak of inventions of genius, and they have been
great. We marvel that one can stand by the side of
a telegraphic instrument, and by means of an electric
current talk to people ten thousand miles away, but
the achievements of the heart are still greater. The
heart that is full of love for its fellows, the heart that
yearns to do some great good, the heart that puts into
motion something for the benefit of the human race,
will speak to hearts that will beat ten thousand years
after all our hearts are still. How are people remem-
bered ? Do you build monuments to them ? Is that the
only way ? Have you ever gone into an old graveyard,
a hundred years old, or two hundred, and looked at the
monuments over the graves? How few of all the
countless millions of the human race will ever be
remembered one hundred years after their death by
any monument that marks their resting-place ! I am
glad that the Creator — as infinite in love as in power
— has made it possible for every human being to
erect for himself a monument that will endure when
all the monuments of granite and bronze have crum-
bled to decay. I believe such a monument has been

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reared by Dr. Mclver. Five hundred students — into
how many homes do these people go ? Count the grad-
uates who have gone out from year to year. Count
the homes which they have helped to make better, and
then trace, if you can, this tremendous influence as it
goes on in increasing circles generation after genera-
tion. We can measure the distance of the farthest
star from the earth, but who will measure the influence
of a single kind word or a single kind act on the
generations that are yet to come?

Dr. Mclver has shown us what man can do. He has
not only shown us this, but also what man ought to
do. He has given us an ideal of life, and I am coming
more and more to believe that the ideal is the impor-
tant thing. There are Democrats here and they have
spoken kindly of my Democracy. There are Republi-
cans here, and they have sometimes criticized me possi-
bly with severity. I want to say to you that I have
reached this point, that I believe that the things that
hold us together as citizens are more important and
more numerous than the things that separate us dur-
ing campaigns into hostile battles, and I am more
wedded to the ideal that shapes the individual life
than I am to any party policy. No matter how good
we make our government, no one will get the benefit
of it if he has an ideal that does not lead him onward.
No matter how bad our government may be, those who
have ideals that are best can stand the bad government,
and will least suffer from it. If I could look into your
hearts and see what ideals you have there, I could

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measure with some exactness your future with its
happiness or its woe. The ideal controls the life, and
one of the most important things to present to the
young is an ideal. I speak as a parent to parents when
I tell you that the most important thing that we parents
have to do is to give to our children a conception of
life that is a worthy one and that will control their
destiny. I believe that no ideal is high enough for a
great life, a good life, a successful life, that is not high
enough to be seen from both sides of the river that
divides time and eternity. I believe that Dr. Mclver
had an ideal, a Christian ideal, a conception of life
as not limited to a few years on earth — but as a small
arc of an infinite circle.

I have been a member of a Christian church from
the time I was fourteen. I passed through my period
of scepticism as a school boy, and I was planted upon
solid rock by the time I reached manhood, and as I
have grown older my views on the subject have deep-
ened, but I say to you this trip around the world has
much increased not only my devotion to the Christian
ideal of life, but my appreciation of its priceless value.
We are doing more for the world when we give it
a conception of life in harmony with our religion than
we are in any other way, and I am glad that our dead
brother day by day held before those who came into
contact with him a Christian ideal of life, an ideal
of service, an ideal that life is to be measured by the
service rendered; that we are to be giving forth all
the time, and not merely selfishly trying to secure the

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richest rewards and the most of individual comfort.
I had my ambitions when I was a boy. You had your
ambitions, and these ambitions are changed. Some-
times a boy starts out with the idea that he is going
to be rich, and he bends everything to that end ; some-
times one starts out, and his goal is social distinction,
and he bends every energy in that direction ; another
starts out with an ambition for office, and he lays his
plans and works patiently, looking forward to some
coveted honor. I had my ambition. When I was a
boy only fourteen years of age, I conceived the ambi-
tion of going to the United States Senate. I never
thought of going to Congress ; never thought of being
President — it was to be a United States Senator. I
didn't expect to go soon; I was going to be a lawyer
first ; I was going to make my fortune in the law, and
after I was independent I was going to enter politics
and the United States Senate was the object of my
ambition. Circumstances changed the course of my
life, and experience has given me, I think, a better
ambition than to hold office. One hundred years from
now the world will not remember me by what the
world has done for me. If the world remembers me
at all, it will be for what I have done for the world.
I am conscious of changing ideals as I make progress
toward the grave. You are conscious of changing
ideals. When we are young, things look great to us
that after awhile look very insignificant. Struggles
that excite us and arouse us are looked back to with
amusement. But, my friends, as we approach the

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grave we begin to wonder what the world is going to
say of us ; wonder how the world is going to feel when
we are gone. We wonder what impression our lives
are going to make upon those about us. Those of you
who are older already think of this, as I think of it.
You who are younger will think of it as you grow older.
I believe that Dr. Mclver 's life was a success. * *
I will tell you a test of whether life has been a success
or not. We all live amid an environment. Sometimes
we are only known to a little circle, sometimes to a large
circle; but when we die there is going to be a just
verdict, and that just and honest verdict is the thing
that we ourselves, when we come to take a proper view
of life, will be more interested in than the houses and
lands that we leave for our children to quarrel over.
And I have thought that it can be said that a life has
been lived successfully if, when it passes out, we can
say of the person, as we can say of this dear friend of
mine and of yours :

"The night is darker because his light is gone out;
The world is not so warm because his heart is cold in
death.' »

From Greensboro Daily Record

The most touching incident and one that showed
louder than any blare of trumpet was the fact that
last night on the arrival of Mr. Bryan and during
his journey to the place of speaking there was scarcely
a cheer, caused by the respect for the late Dr. Mclver,

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whose death cast so deep a shadow over the whole city
and country. It takes something to keep people from
going wild at the sight of Bryan. No greater tribute
could be offered to the lamented President than this.

WITH TEAR -DIMMED EYES
From Greensboro Patriot

A message that enshrouded the State in gloom and
spread a pall of sorrow over the entire city of Greens-
boro was flashed over the wires from Hillsboro between
four and five o'clock Monday afternoon. It an-
nounced the sudden death of Dr. Charles Duncan
Mclver, President of the State Normal and Industrial
College here, and one of the foremost educators of the
South. People were slow to credit the shocking news.
It was difficult to realize that such a strong man was
cut down in his prime and at the height of his useful-
ness, but it was all too true.

Last night (Tuesday, September 18) Dr. Mclver 's
body lay in state from 7 :00 until 10 :00 at the main
building of the State Normal and Industrial College,
and hundreds of people, including many old and new
students of the Institution gathering for the opening
Thursday, viewed it with tear-dimmed eyes. Today at
11 :00 o 'clock the funeral will take place from the First
Presbyterian Church, of which the deceased had long
been a member. His pastor for so many years, Rev.
E. W. Smith, D. D., now of Louisville, Ky., cannot

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reach the city in time for the service, and Rev. L. W.
Crawford, D. D., of Reidsville, likewise a staunch
personal friend of long standing, will officiate, assisted
by the Presbyterian ministers of the city. The Masonic
orders of Winston and Greensboro will participate in
the services.

To give expression to the eulogies of the deceased
heard on every hand would require many times the
space at our command. Beyond question he was the
foremost citizen of Greensboro. In his zeal to promote
education in a practical manner he neglected none of
the other duties of life and no worthy cause ever
lacked his support. Enthusiasm and far-sighted
ability characterized his every act, no matter in what
cause his energies were enlisted. His influence on
the educational life of the State will be longest felt,
however, because first of all he was an educator in
the truest sense of the word. Truly the College which
he virtually established and over whose destinies he
has since so ably presided is an enduring monument
to his memory.

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FRIENDS

From The Raleigh News and Observer

The funeral of Dr. Charles D. Mclver, late Presi-
dent of the State Normal and Industrial College, took
place today, Wednesday, September 19, amid unprec-
edented marks of respect, affection and esteem.
Every business house of whatever kind was closed,
the schools and factories during the two hours of the
ceremony, and the Superior Court adjourned for the
time. From this and other States had come a great
many personal and educational friends, besides repre-
sentatives of various interests in which he had been
officially connected in the educational and philan-
thropical fields of endeavor. Out of town members of
the Children's Home Society, presidents of colleges
and universities and officials of his own great
Woman's University, were here.

The First Presbyterian Church, of which Dr.
Mclver was a member, was filled to overflowing and
the chancel was banked with floral offerings sent from
friends and loved ones from all over the State and
from other States.

An immense concourse followed the remains to the

tomb, at Green Hill Cemetery, where the Masons laid

him finally to rest with the impressive ritual of the

Order.

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From Greensboro Telegram, September 19, 1906

In the presence of an immense concourse of sorrow-
ful relatives and friends, the funeral of Dr. Charles
Duncan Mdver, the lamented President of the State
Normal and Industrial College, was held at 11:00
o 'clock this morning in the First Presbyterian Church,
of which the deceased had been a consecrated member
for a number of years. Every seat in the spacious
church and annex was occupied and a great many
stood in the side aisles and doors, while hundreds of
others were unable to gain admittance.

Never before was a funeral service in Greensboro
so largely attended, nor greater respect shown to
the memory of a departed citizen. Business through-
out the city was almost entirely suspended from 10 :30
until 12:00 o'clock, and all Greensboro folk joined in
honoring the deceased. The funeral cortege was one
of the longest, if not the longest, ever seen here, being
at least half a mile in length, and included not only a
great throng of citizens with bowed heads and crushed
and bleeding hearts, but also many prominent men
and women from different parts of this and other
States.

From Greensboro Industrial News, Sept. 20, 1906

In the city from which radiated his life's work the
body of Charles Duncan Mclver was on yesterday
consigned to its last resting place.

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From near and far men of prominence had gathered
together to do honor to the memory of him who had
so enshrined himself in the heart of all North Caro-
linians. The stillness of death hung over the city.
Closed doors and lowered shades marked the business
streets through which slowly passed the funeral line.
Men and women instinctively felt the solemnity of
the hour, and reverently turned aside from worldly
occupations to join in the obsequies.

Never before had the city so felt a personal loss in
death of one of its citizens.

To the State Doctor Mclver was to a large degree
the incarnation of an idea — the educational uplift-
ing of the people — by the education of the children,
especially the girls of the State.

To the people of Greensboro Doctor Mclver was this,
but he was more. He had for years dwelt among us.
Thoroughly had he identified himself with our local
affairs, our local need, our local ambitions ; and almost
we forgot that a great educator had passed away in
our grief over the loss of a friend.

His body now rests peacefully on the breast of the
old Mother State that he so loved and to whom he had
rendered such splendid service ; but we feel that only
his body rests and that his soul is still marching as it
marched of yore, in the forefront of the vanguard of
that great army of men and women who are battling
for the uplift of North Carolina.

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FUNERAL SERMON BY REV. L. W. CRAWFORD, D. D.

"Then this Daniel was preferred above the presidents
and princes, because an excellent spirit was in him. " —
Daniel 6: 3.

The elements that constitute true manhood, real
nobility, supreme excellence, have been the same in
all ages of the world. Modes of life may vary, customs
may change, educative processes may differ, but that
which determines the value and worth of men in all
countries, under all forms of civilization and among
all races is, to a large extent, the same. Let me call
your attention for a moment to the qualities that seem
to me essential to real greatness in human life and
character.

I. The first essential is the power of vision: the
ability to see. In speaking of the heathen gods the
Scriptures say, "Eyes have they, but they see not."
So it is with millions of people. Our Lord said of
the Jews in his day, "Seeing they see not." That is,
theirs is a surface view, they do not understand, they
do not comprehend. The function of sight is merely
to paint on the retina of the eye a photograph of an
external object; but true vision penetrates its depths,
discovers its hidden things, grasps its whole content
with its resources and possibilities. To illustrate :
Michael Angelo passing along a highway saw a block
of marble. As he fastened his gaze upon it he said
within himself, I see an angel in that marble. He had
the power of vision. Hundreds had looked upon that

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stone before, but had seen only its form and surface.
Fulton sat quietly in his home meditating. A kettle
of water hung over the fire. He watched the lid rise
and fall as the steam collected and escaped. Thou-
sands had watched the same thing without a thought
of what it meant. Fulton was a seer, he had the
power of vision. His eye penetrated beneath the sur-
face and he saw there the principle and power of con-
densed steam, the knowledge and application of which
was later to revolutionize the industrial world. Sir
Isaac Newton, the great astronomer, saw an apple
fall from the limb of a tree to the ground — a common-
place occurrence which millions had witnessed before.
But Newton had the power of vision, and in the fall-
ing apple he discovered the law of gravitation that
controls the movement of every mote that floats in the
air, and guides every planet in its orbit, and holds in
its place every system of suns and stars that make
up the great universe.

Daniel, to whom reference is made in the text, had
both sight and vision. He lived at a period before the
Sun of Righteousness had fully shined upon the world
and given to man a knowledge of higher, better and
diviner things. He was reared in a kingdom and
country where wealth and power were deified and
worshipped. He lived in great and mighty Babylon,
whose hundred and twenty provinces, whose mighty
rivers and lofty mountains and rich valleys, whose
walled cities, hanging gardens and towers and palaces,
had made her the wonder and admiration of the world.

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Like others he looked with pride and pleasure on these
things, but with a seer's eye, with a prophet's ken, he
set them in their right relation to their Creator. On
hill and valley he saw the footprints of God. He saw
His hand guiding the course of nature and shaping
the destiny of empires. There came to him the con-
sciousness that all is unsubstantial and fleeting that
is not allied to God; that all is vanity that does not
lead to him; that the world passeth away and the
the things thereof, but the Lord abideth forever. He
felt the need of His touch, the inspiration of His Spirit,
the inflow of His life and power. He began to seek
after God. Day by day he turned his thought to the
fountain of life. Day by day he sought communion
with the unseen. Three times each day, the record is,
he turned aside from office and toil that in his closet he
might feel after Him and ally himself to the source
of all life and power. In the heart and head and
spirit of His servant the light and truth and power
of God began to pulsate, and thus it was that "this
Daniel was preferred above all the presidents and
princes because an excellent spirit was in him. ' ' Then
all Babylon realized that a new ruler had come to
the throne, and that all the material wealth and splen-
dor of the great capitol were not to be compared in
value to the wisdom and power, the faith and right-
eousness of Daniel.

II. The second essential to true greatness is ability
and willingness to serve. Vision penetrates, compre-
hends and grasps, but, if it does no more, little is

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accomplished. There must also be ability to materi-
alize, to organize, to project and control. Vision gives
an ideal and it may be perfect and exalted, but unless
the ideal is made the actual it is worth little to the
author or to the world. To one who toils without
vision the task is heavy and burdensome. If one has
a vision of what ought to be and does not throw him-
self into it, if one has an ideal and cannot convert it
into the actual, he is a dreamer and not a master.
It is only when the seer becomes the worker, when the
ideal is clothed with form and fashioned into being,
that humanity is greatly benefited.

When Michael Angelo called the angel from the
marble, converted the ideal into the actual, clothed it
with form and it stood forth perfect in outline and
feature, then the world felt the throb of his power
and the inspiration of his genius. When Fulton
applied the principle of condensed steam to machinery
and locomotion, then the power and genius of the
man thrilled all men with their greatness. When
Daniel in Babylon had a vision of divine things he
was considered a dreamer, but when the life and
power and wisdom of God were actualized in his own
being, when through his heart and brain and spirit
these divine elements began to express themselves and
touch the lives of men, solve the problems of govern-
ment, enrich the thought of the world and profoundly
impress humanity and elevate peoples, races and
nations, then the real value of Daniel was recognized
and understood. Then it was that the king, the court,

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the presidents and princes willingly gave him the
preeminence.

The power of vision and the ability and willingness
to serve are always and everywhere the real test of
human greatness. When we come to measure our
departed friend by this standard, when we apply this
test to his life and character, how really great does
he appear! May I not say that in his sphere, in his
chosen field, he was peerless — that he was above all
presidents and princes because of the spirit within
him?

Does anyone who knew Charles D. Mclver doubt for
a moment that he was a seer, a prophet ? None. That
he had the power of vision and saw angels and mighty
forces where others saw only stones and apples?
Years ago he saw with prophetic eye, he discerned
with a master spirit, and penetrated beneath the sur-
face of things. He had a vision clear and well defined,
a perfect ideal.

As he went throughout his native State, whose every
foot of soil was sacred and dear, and in whose indus-
trial, educational and religious progress he felt the
deepest interest, he saw her vast material resources
and the infinite possibilities of her people. He believed
that North Carolina could be made one of the first
states in our great republic, whose influence for
good would be felt throughout the nation and the
world. He saw with others that the solution of this
problem was in popular Christian education, but it
was his own peculiar vision that this work could be

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best accomplished, this end soonest realized, by put-
ting in every home the highest type of womanhood.
Give the State mothers educated, refined and Christ-
like, he said, and all her material, social, educational,
economic and religious problems will be solved, her
development and progress will be steady, and her
position and fame be secured for all time to come. This
conviction came to him with overwhelming power, and
though Herculean seemed the task, he set about its
accomplishment in sober earnestness. His highest
aspiration henceforth was to be obedient to the Heav-
enly vision; the one purpose that dominated his life
was to finish the work God gave him to do. He was
no idle dreamer, but a man with a genius for work and
ability to grasp and master the situation. His ener-
gies were first directed towards creating and strength-
ening public sentiment, which he crystalized and con-
centrated upon centers of influence. The State soon
felt the power of the man and responded to his splen-
did leadership with such sympathy and generosity
that ere long the cherished dream of his heart stood
forth a living reality.

We are accustomed to speak of the State Normal
and Industrial College as Dr. Mclver's monument.
Largely it is, and one that will endure and continue
to give glory to his name and light to the Common-
wealth. But this is only one feature of his great work.
His chief monument is in the hearts and lives of the
people and in the present advanced position of his
State. Governors, legislators, judges, teachers, state

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and denominational schools and colleges, and the
humblest citizen as well, felt the magnetism of his
personality and the inspiration of his enthusiasm. The
three thousand girls who have come under his guard-
ianship have caught his spirit, and gone out with his
ideals, and the two hundred thousand pupils to whom
they have communicated these have been enriched
and uplifted thereby. Nor were his works and influ-
ence limited by state lines. As the years went by the
circle of his influence widened, until his life pulsated
through our southland and many northern states also
were benefited by his energy and wisdom. His services
were more and more in demand, and he willingly gave
his time and strength wherever he could help the cause
he loved. As evidence of the love and esteem in which
he is held, this city is today in sackcloth and ashes,
our commonwealth is bowed in grief and sorrow and
in every state of the Union many mourn his departure
as a national loss.

III. One other fact I must mention. The life and
usefulness of a good man do not end with a few years
on earth. Man's immortality is clearly taught in
God's word. That we should live not for this world
alone Christ emphasized in all his earthly teachings.
He impressed the fact that to man the world is a
school house where we are to learn a few lessons, a
stage where for a time we are to act our part, a field
for investigation and research, but surely not our
home or abiding place, nor the field for the highest
achievement.

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That wonderful man, Moses, the great statesman
and lawgiver of Israel, who broke the yoke of Egyp-
tian bondage and led the people through all the educa-
tive processes of the wilderness journey, came at last
to the borders of the promised land. There, on the
summit of Pisgah, God met and talked with him. He
showed him the hills and valleys of that goodly land,
and then said, "Moses, you have done enough, come
up higher." And with eye undimmed, and his
natural force unabated, he at once entered upon a
larger sphere of action beyond.

Elijah, the wonder working prophet of Israel, who
lived so near to God that he shut up the heavens that
it did not rain for three years, and called down fire
from Heaven to consume the sacrifice and altar on
Mount Carmel, was also the great educator of the
nation, the very life of the schools of the prophets at
Bethel and Gilgal and Jericho. One day while busy
with his life's work, active, strong and brave, there
met him on the highway a chariot of fire and horses
of flame, and in an instant he was translated from
earthly labor to higher service above.

We can but recall in connection with these scenes
that of the transfiguration of Christ. As He stood
on Mount Hermon glorified, His face shining with
the brightness of the noonday sun, His very garments
white and glistening, His humanity swallowed up in
the glory of His divinity, the heavens opened and
there came forth Moses and Elijah wrapped in celes-
tial light, leading the angelic hosts. There, in full

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possession of all their powers, they talked with Christ
concerning the things that should shortly take place
at Jerusalem, as though they had part in the very
councils of heaven. Surely death but opens the door
into real life.

How like Moses was our departed brother, in that
patiently and heroically he struggled and toiled to
lead the people out of the bondage of ignorance into
the liberty of light and knowledge. The march
through the wilderness was ended, and the promised
land in sight. A sword was in his hand, a crown upon
his brow, when God said, "Come up higher." "With
eye undimmed and natural force unabated, he laid
down his work on earth that he might enter upon a
grander work above.

Carrying, like Elijah, the great cause of education
on his heart, full of life and zeal and courage, he was
busy and absorbed in the opening of the schools of
the land. Ever ready, as was his wont, to minister
to others and to contribute his part to the public
welfare, he left his home on the morning of Septem-
ber 17th in company with friends, to do honor to the
foremost private citizen of our nation. As always, so
on this occasion, he had performed well his part.
The day had been a glorious triumph, a succession of
brilliant events. The sun had crossed the meridian,
and, slowly sinking in the west, cast his glory athwart
valley and hill. The happy company was homeward
bound. Was it not a fitting hour for the departure of
our friend? Speeding o'er the great highway on a

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mission of unselfish helpfulness to others, surrounded
by men of state, himself second only to the guest of
honor, in the inner circle of whose affections he filled
so large a place, in the prime and vigor of a splendid
manhood, planning larger things for his state and
nation, God called him, a chariot appeared, and in a
moment Charles D. Mclver was promoted from work
on earth to higher service above, where instant vision
is perfect joy and immortal labor eternal rest. Servant
of God, well done.

Let us catch his spirit, emulate his example, take up
his work and carry it forward.

With our loins girt about and our lamps trimmed
and burning, let us be ready to answer to the call
when our summons comes.

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From Greensboro Telegram

Calmer thought on the death of Dr. Charles D.
Mclver serves only to increase the sense of loss — loss
to the College, the City, the State and the educational
life of the Nation. Naturally we feel most keenly
the loss to the City. Was there ever quite so enthusi-
astic a Greensboro-lover as Dr. Mclver? The College,
of course, was first with him, and then came his pro-
found concern about the record and the future of
the State educationally. But in a temperament so
ardent there was love and zeal in other directions,
and Greensboro and its future as a live, hustling
metropolis of the Piedmont region lay very close to his
heart. All remember the active and important part
he took in the arrangements for the Reunion. Like-
wise all know how in every public meeting looking
to the city's good he was a moving spirit. With his
ability to arouse other people, he was a power in every
undertaking. The loss to the city by his death is
great indeed.

And the personal loss to those whom he met only
occasionally is great, very great. Dr. Mclver 's was
an energizing, stimulating personality. No reasonably
responsive person came within range of him without

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feeling the electrifying thrill of his wonderful energy.
To hear him talk was to be challenged to think and to
think with all the precision and thoroughness one
could muster. He was no man of the cloister. He was a
man among men. No activity of any kind was there
that did not interest him and bristle with truths and
suggestions for him to gather. So it was that he
had a wide acquaintance with all sorts and conditions
of men.

And all who knew him mourn him sincerely.

From The Weekly Tar Heel, Greensboro

It was a sad day that took from this life Dr. Charles
D. Mclver. He was one of the best and most valuable
men in North Carolina. He lived for humanity. His
life's work has been for the good of his fellow beings,
for their elevation and advancement. No man has
done more for education than he, and easily he was
the leading educator of the State. His place in the
educational field will be hard to fill.

From Raleigh News and Observer

The sudden death of Dr. Charles D. Mclver, Presi-
dent of the State Normal and Industrial College,
which occurred on his Avay home on the Bryan special
train yesterday afternoon, is in every sense a deep
calamity to a people he has served with brilliancy and
with unceasing energy and devotion. The State of

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North Carolina, the Normal and Industrial College,
and the cause of education in the South have suffered
a loss which it will be impossible to repair.

Charles D. Mclver was the best type of Southern
manhood. His faith was profound, his courage uncon-
querable and his capacity for labor apparently a thing
that had no limit when the interests which he held
dear were concerned. He was of massive brain and
electric personality. Easily of national size, he pre-
ferred to stay in North Carolina and devote his genius
to her educational advancement. The Normal and
Industrial College was in many respects the child of
his creation, and no parent loved a child better than
he did the institution over which he presided, and
which owes to him, more than to any other single
force, its high position as one of the chief glories of
the State.

Taken in the flush of vigorous manhood, with no
intimation of the summons, with a brilliant life appar-
ently unfolding into a more brilliant future, his
death is one of those apparent inconsistencies of
nature which give to the deepest grief an added pang.
He had done so much that his need had become impera-
tive. No man could have left behind him more sorrow
or better memory.

From Charlotte Observer

The news of the death of Dr. Charles Duncan
Mclver will carry a shock from one end of the State

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to the other. He was known in person in almost
every county, and we shall think that in all the work
he has done for the State the best was when he and
Dr. Alderman toured it in summers agone and
addressed teachers ' institutes — and educated not more
the teachers than the people. Almost certainly the
revival of the interest in education in the State could be
traced to these county institutes and to the direction
and addresses of these two brilliant young men. After
this period Dr. Mclver became the head of the Normal
and Industrial College of the State. Through this
instrumentality he has done unspeakably for the
young women of North Carolina. Upon the subject
of education he was an enthusiast ; an always rational,
intelligent enthusiast. No man in our history has done
more to forward it. His own institution, the
institution which, one will say, was born to him,
which he nursed and fostered, was the object of his
special and natural affection, but in the whole field he
was a champion, an advocate, and in his death the
cause has lost a stalwart friend. It will be difficult
to fill the vacancy which his death has created. It
was a proper tribute paid him at Greensboro last
evening, that there was no political address, but that
the meeting was made one of memorial. Had he lived
until the twenty-seventh of this month Dr. Mclver
would have been forty-six years of age. He died too
young — before his life work was nearly completed.

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From Charlotte News

It is with a feeling of deep regret and sadness that
the people of our State hear of the sudden taking
away of Dr. Charles Duncan Mclver, President of
the State Normal College at Greensboro. Dr. Mclver
might be classed among the foremost, if not the fore-
most educator of North Carolina, and his reputation
was of national extent. His service to the cause of
education, most especially that of young ladies, can-
not be estimated. For a number of years he has
wrought valiantly in the interest of the State Normal
College and the fruits of his labors are to be seen on
every hand. Next to his work along this line, might be
considered the extensive good he accomplished when a
few years ago he toured the State speaking at Teach-
ers' Institutes. By this means he was instrumental
in bringing about a renaissance of interest in the
subject of education never wrought before. He had
the best interests of the boys and girls at heart, of
all of them, and his service to them will continue to
bear fruit long after his body shall have returned to
dust. His death is the State's loss.

From Wilmington Messenger

Mr. Bryan's triumphal tour of the State was changed
into a funeral procession from Durham to Greensboro
because of the sudden death on the special train of
President Charles D. Mclver, of the State Normal and
Industrial College. It was a sad event indeed. Under

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any circumstances the death of this man, one of the
most prominent citizens of the State and one of her
leading educators, would have brought grief to his
host of friends, but especially distressing was it on
such an occasion. Mr. Bryan put aside the role of
politician and stepped down from the position of his
party's leader to kneel beside the lifeless body of a
friend loved and admired, who had been stricken unto
death while joining with other admirers and friends
of the great man to do him honor and give him hearty
welcome to their State. It was sad indeed that death
should have intruded upon that joyous assemblage
of leading men of our State who had gathered to do
honor to the man who is the recognized national leader
of his party. Still sadder is it to the State that death
should have marked for its own one who was doing
such noble work for the education and uplifting of
the young women of our State. It will be difficult for
the State to fill his place as President of the Normal
College. He was thoroughly capable and his heart
and soul were in the work that had been intrusted
to him. He loved his work and he rejoiced in the
results of that work, which were in evidence through-
out the length and breadth of our State wherever a
graduate of his College was to be found.

From New Bern Journal

The Supreme Being grants to few men such a fitting
and glorious closing to life as was given Charles

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Duncan Mclver. Many men perform noble work in
their lives on earth, but some cloud, some slight
obstacle, arises to disturb or in a degree mar their final
efforts. To Dr. Mclver was given energy, genius, the
strength for hard and persistent work, combined with
natural and moral characteristics which made him a
natural leader. Genial, whole-souled, there was in him
the irresistible personality of a Man. During no
period of his life was his personality so strong as at
the hour when the Divine call sounded. His work
was always finished, although each new hour and day
presented rich opportunities for his efforts, and no
hour or day was wasted. It was given this great man,
the genius, the ability to round out his work, as few
men can, so that what he did was both well done and
finished. And so called suddenly from his life's work
to a life greater and more reaching, Charles Duncan
Mclver could pass away with no regrets of work left
undone. He could have done much more, if it had
been the wish of God to have given longer life. But
to North Carolina, the death of Dr. Mclver seems
beyond measure a loss. His life was the State's. His
work was for the people, and given for the upbuild-
ing, uplifting, and splendid advancement of his fel-
lows. No citizen stood closer to the homes in North
Carolina, for it was through his mighty work, that
woman's work, her education and a juster and clearer
knowledge of her value and worth were developed
and brought forth. In such a life as has just passed
beyond, there is no standard of measurement, that man

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can employ. Only by the great scales of the Almighty
can the computation be made. Man mourns, saying
the loss is irreparable. Yet there is no loss. The
State, the world have been rich gainers, through such
a life, genius for good as it was, endowed for work
as it was. But there must be grief, deep and poignant.
There must be tears throughout North Carolina, for the
sorrow is not of a household, not of a single city, but
of a great people. The testimony of good cannot be
limited to a few. He was the friend of all, and his
help was always extended, free, sincere and generous.
It is this spirit of fellowship which endeared Doctor
Mclver to all, and so today his friends (and every
one who knew him was his friend) mourn their loss
as one family. But his work lies not buried. The
influences which he has started will find ready hands
to hold up and carry forward. His monument will be
in the hearts of all, and his work visible throughout
the coming years. His memory will be a sacred one
to every North Carolinian.

From N. C. Journal of Education

"In the midst of life we are in death." The force
of this truth was never brought closer home to the
hearts of us all than when the news of the sudden
death of Dr. Charles D. Mclver flashed over the wires
on the afternoon of September the seventeenth.

In his death the State mourns a citizen, worthy in
the truest sense of that word, for his was a life

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devoted to public service of whatever kind. Nor is
his loss confined to his dear "Old North State," for
he was easily a national figure in the educational
world.

The State can ill afford to lose him. His boundless
energy, his zeal, his earnestness of purpose, his true
patriotism, his love of and loyalty to her interests,
made for him a place in the life of the State impossi-
ble to be filled.

Especially will the cause of public education,
whether in the state or nation, have reason to mourn
a leader gone. Dr. Mclver's work as an educator will
serve as an everlasting memorial to him. During his
twenty-five years of active work in the teaching world
he has been moulding educational thought in the
State and, when the history of the great educational
revival in North Carolina comes to be written, his
name will stand foremost among the promoters of the
movement for the education of all the people. He was
truly an "educational statesman," as Dr. Lyman
Abbott so aptly said of him. He was the first to see
that the pivotal point in our educational system is the
training of the women of our State for educational
service, and with untiring zeal and devotion to his
ideal, he kept it before the people until they were con-
vinced of the soundness of his principle. The State
Normal and Industrial College is his specific work and
will stand as a monument to his high devotion to an
idea and an ideal. The hundreds of young women
who have come in touch with him there and who will

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still come in touch with his spirit of service, will
rise up and call him "blessed" who, more than any
other, was instrumental in opening to them such
opportunities for training and development as are
given at this noble institution. The State has felt
the influence of his work as "hundreds of teachers
have caught from his presence a spirit that has sent
them to their trying work, from the college recitation
room to the humble log cabin school house in the back-
woods, with hearts afire and souls inspired to render
great service to their country and to humanity, car-
ing naught for the vast personal sacrifices frequently
involved.

From Asheville Citizen

North Carolina is peculiarly unfortunate in that
many of her valuable sons are being called away
within a short time of each other. In the natural
course of events we can of course expect that sooner
or later some great brain will cease to work, and the
cords of some noble heart will snap asunder. Under
such circumstances the blow falls with less poignancy,
but when a light of the world is suddenly extinguished
ere its mission is fulfilled, it is hard for the ordinary
mortal to know why and wherefore such catastrophes
must befall us. Charles D. Mclver, President of the
North Carolina . Normal and Industrial College, at
Greensboro, was suddenly taken away yesterday. This
morning the State is poorer, much poorer, because
there are few hands capable of taking up the work

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he had not fully completed. There are few tongues
in North Carolina, if in the entire South, which will
plead the cause of education for women with the same
burning eloquence that Dr. Mclver proclaimed it.
Standing for the elevation of womanhood by means
of proper training and environments, he had the ear
of the educational forces of the nation, and many Were
the flattering offers which came to him from promi-
nent institutions in distant states. But his heart had
taken root in the soil of the Old North State, and his
love remained true to the great Institution which grew
up under his hands. The Citizen has pleasant recol-
lections of a visit from Dr. Mclver a short time ago,
and on that occasion we were deeply impressed with
the earnestness and enthusiasm of the great educator.
One portion of his conversation we distinctly remem-
ber. Reviewing his historic fight in the legislature of
1891 he said : ' ' Our State never made a better invest-
ment than the annual appropriation which makes it
possible to furnish its daughters the very best quality
of education at a small cost to the individual. ' ' Well
did the deceased feel that in securing exceptional
educational facilities for young women he was paving
the way for a better generation, for he believed that
the elevation of womanhood meant the elevation of
the race. "When you have good mothers," he said
to The Citizen, ' ' you have a good nation. ' ' No greater
truth was ever spoken. We know that it was Dr.
Mclver 's wish that the State Normal and Industrial
College should at some time be known as the "North

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Carolina College for Women," and it would be a fit-
ting tribute to the memory of the great and good man
to follow out his wishes. Requiescat in pace.

From Durham Sun

The death of Dr. Charles D. Mclver, President of
the State Normal and Industrial College, which
occurred on the Bryan special train yesterday after-
noon after leaving Durham, is heard of with regret
by the people from one end of North Carolina to the
other. The State, the Normal and Industrial College
and the cause of education in the South have suffered
a well nigh irreparable loss. Dr. Mclver was the best,
of Southern manhood. He was a man of profound
faith, unconquerable courage, and unlimited capacity
for work, with an electric personality, and possessed
of a brain of great intellectual power. His memory
will be long cherished, for he has left behind him a
splendid and glorious record.

From Charity and Children, Thomasville

The death of Dr. Charles D. Mclver Monday after-
noon on the Bryan train, between Durham and
Greensboro, shocked the State, for his name is a house-
hold word among our people. Mr. Bryan spoke the
truth when he said, "I had rather, a thousand times,
leave the world what Dr. Mclver has left it than to
leave John D. Rockefeller's millions." Indeed, one

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such man as Charles D. Mclver is worth all the mil-
lionaires of Wall Street. He loved North Carolina
and consecrated all his great powers to her service.
He was among the foremost educators of the United
States and we mourn his untimely death.

From Kinston Free Press

In the death of President Charles D. Mclver, of
the State Normal and Industrial College, North Caro-
lina sustains a loss that is almost irreparable. Dr.
Mclver was a man well equipped, vigorous and full
of energy. He had a sublime faith in the destiny of
his State, and his influence in guiding it along the way
of educational progress was one of the most potent
forces for good that has ever been exerted in our
midst. Thousands of young women, throughout our
State and Southland, will, among others, grieve over
his untimely death. He conceived the idea that the
best and surest way to elevate the State and develop
it was to train the young women of the land, and
this task he entered upon with all the earnestness of
his big, manly soul. He worked nobly in his chosen
field, and the impetus his life and labor gave to our
educational development will eventually place it high
in the sisterhood of States. Not only North Carolina,
but the whole South experiences a loss when men of
Dr. Mclver 's calibre are called to lay down their work
and pass into the great beyond.

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From Webster's Weekly, Beidsville

The sudden death of Dr. Charles D. Mclver, Presi-
dent of the State Normal and Industrial College, has
cast a gloom over the whole State. Nothing could be
more pathetic than the circumstances under which the
sad event occurred. He was one of the committee of
distinguished citizens who formed the escort to Mr.
Bryan from Greensboro to Baleigh, and entered
heartily into the spirit of the occasion, being a personal
friend and warm admirer of the great Nebraskam
and upon the return trip home was stricken with
apoplexy, dying suddenly. So sudden and unexpected
was the summons that strong men lost control of them-
selves and gave way to grief, and Mr. Bryan wept as
if he had lost one bound to him by ties of blood as well
as friendship. Greensboro was overwhelmed by the
sad bereavement, and when the train bearing the
Bryan party arrived in the city what would under
different circumstances have been an ovation to the
most popular leader in the country, was turned into
a silent demonstration of respect for the mortal
remains of Greensboro's most useful citizen. Such
a spectacle has never been witnessed in North Carolina
before. Dr. Mclver was easily the most successful and
popular educator of his generation in this State. The
State Normal and Industrial College owes its existence
to him more than to any other man. What a noble man
he was ! How broad were his sympathies and how
exalted his ideals! Cut down in the prime of man-

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hood, when the State needed him most — How sad!
The office he has occupied since the establishment of
the State Normal and Industrial College may be filled
by another, but his place in the confidence and affec-
tion of the people will not be filled for years to come.
The Weekly offers it heartfelt sympathy to the stricken
family. He was one of this paper's truest and best
friends.

From Lexington Dispatch

The State's loss in the death of Dr. Charles D.
Mclver cannot be measured. He was a most useful
man, big-brained, big-hearted, thoroughly in love with
his great work and a true son of North Carolina.
Tempted by many times the salary he received as Presi-
dent of the Normal and Industrial College, rather
than leave that Institution and his work, he refused,
and labored on for the education of the girls of this
State. Scores and hundreds of women who graduated
at this College, thoroughly equipped for their life-
work, will render the best testimonial of Dr. Mclver 's
greatness and his goodness. By his death North Caro-
lina is hit hard, and our own personal regret cannot
be put in words.

From Charlotte Chronicle

North Carolina had no more loyal son than Dr.
Charles D. Mclver, whose death occurred suddenly on
the Bryan special train. On every occasion where

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there was to be singing at the State Normal and
Industrial College, or any occasion when the exer-
cises were in his hands, the Old North State would be
the first number on the program. He was devoted to
the cause of education and gave his whole thought and
all his energies to the cause. The State Normal and
Industrial College is his monument. It was a small
and weak institution when he took charge. He leaves
it one of the most successful and best equipped edu-
cational institutions in the entire country. He did
not permit it to languish for a day, but was ever alert
to its needs and in seeing that these were supplied.
The education of young men and young women was
his life work and well was it performed. The cause
of education has sustained a great loss. The State
has lost a son who has reflected honor and credit upon
its name.

From Winston Sentinel

In the death of Dr. Charles D. Mclver this State
loses one of its most useful men. Until he took hold
of woman's education in this State there was prac-
tically no institution under state control having for
its object normal training for women. Today the
State Normal and Industrial College is a monument
to his zeal and success in the education of women. In
his death the cause of education in this State has
suffered a serious blow. Dr. Mclver was known as
a prominent educator throughout the country. Only
a year ago he came within a few votes of being elected

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President of the National Educational Association.
He was recognized as an authority on woman's educa-
tion. The people of Winston-Salem are especially
grieved over Dr. Mclver 's death. He was formerly
a resident of this city, being connected with the pub-
lic schools here, and while in this city won hosts of
friends who deeply deplore his death. Death at any
time is sad, but in the case of a man just in his prime
who is doing a great work it is especially unfortunate.

From Mocksville Courier

The death of Dr. Charles D. Mclver, President of
the State Normal and Industrial College, which
occurred on the Bryan special, Monday, is a calamity
not only to North Carolina, but to the entire South.
Dr. Mclver was not only North Carolina's leading
educator, but was one of her most progressive citi-
zens in every respect. A great and good man has been
snatched from us in the very prime of a useful career,
and the whole State weeps beside his bier.

From Raleigh Times

North Carolina has lost in the death of Dr. Charles
D. Mclver a man it could ill afford to lose, a man who
was giving a strong life, a virile personality and an
indomitable energy to the cause of education. And
he was in the prime of his useful life, with the reason-
able expectation of many years of growing power, for

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such a man could grow with the years. Dr. Mclver was
one of those men who made himself of service wherever
he found himself. Only yesterday morning on the plat-
form at Greensboro, after the arrival of Mr. and Mrs.
Bryan, Dr. Mclver volunteered to look after their bag-
gage while they were at the hotel at breakfast, and
make sure that the valises were put on the special
without any loss of time. It was a little thing, but
it showed the manner of man he was. In all his busy
life Dr. Mclver always took time for a pleasant word
to every acquaintance he saw, and he always saw them
and never forgot anybody.

From North Carolina Baptist, Fayetteville

Charles D. Mclver is dead. The State suffered a
shock of great sorrow on Monday afternoon when the
news was passed from man to man that Charles D.
Mclver had died on the Bryan train on its way from
Raleigh to Greensboro. He was born in Moore
County, educated at the University, and became Presi-
dent of the State Normal and Industrial College in
Greensboro in 1892. His work there has been most
successful. In almost every town and village of the
State there are girls trained by this far-seeing and
much beloved educator. The State has suffered a
great loss. Dr. Mclver was a splendid representative
of the Old North State away from home and its faith-
ful servant at home. The Editor of the Baptist feels
the loss as a personal one.

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From Salisbury Post

The whole State is the loser in the death of Dr.
Charles D. Mclver, who expired on the Bryan special
yesterday afternoon. Dr. Mclver gave his whole
heart to the cause of education and to him more than
any other one man may be credited the great educa-
tional awakening that has come upon this State dur-
ing the past ten years. He was not content with
pedagogy. He originated ideas and caused men to
follow his lead. He cherished no political ambition,
but his influence with legislatures in behalf of educa-
tion marked the turning point in the State's interest
in the intellectual development of its children. Higher
education claimed his immediate attention, but the
public school was nearest his heart and he gave his
best talent to its expansion in his native State. North
Carolina has lost a son of big brain, big heart and
unfailing loyalty.

From Concord Tribune

All North Carolina is shocked today by the news of
Dr. Mclver 's death. He represented the highest and
strongest type of Southern manhood, had made a
national reputation and was to his native State a great
honor and an exceedingly useful citizen. His sudden
taking away is shocking indeed. Young and vigorous,
we can scarcely believe that he was to face such an
unexpected taking away. In his brief career Dr.
Mclver had done one of the highest and best works in

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the State. The great school over which he presided
was a monument to his energies and master intelli-
gence. He loved North Carolina, and delighted in a
great work for her advancement. His place will be
hard to fill, though another will take up his work
and carry it on in the spirit of his endeavors. Surely
it is well that he lived, true that he lived to great
good and died in the midst of a noble career.

From The Biblical Recorder, Raleigh

The sudden death of Charles D. Mclver, LL.D.,
President of the State Normal College, on September
17th, shocked the entire Commonwealth, and, we have
no doubt, there was a sense of public loss and personal
bereavement throughout American educational circles ;
for in recent years Dr. Mclver had added to his
achievements for education in North Carolina an
enviable fame and influence beyond our State. The
State Normal College is his monument. But his ser-
vices in the cause of public education in town and in
country are not to be forgotten. Nor will the
teachers of North Carolina forget the one who has
done so much to advance their profession. No man
in his generation has surpassed Dr. Mclver in serving
North Carolina. His death in the very prime of life
is most untimely.

From Everything, Greensboro

When the South lost, by death, Dr. Charles D.
Mclver, she lost her most valuable citizen. Measured

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by what he accomplished — not for himself, but for
the South — he achieved more than any other citizen
living today. He was an educator — he builded the
Normal School at Greensboro and planted school
houses all over the South. He was strong — he did
things — and while it is proper to build to his memory
a monument of bronze — this will be done — he builded
a monument that will endure as long as the language
is spoken. He insisted that future mothers should
be educated — that that meant a higher education all
around. He depended on no one but himself to accom-
plish his ends — he went through forests of ignorance
and opposition and cleared the way. He died too
young — just forty-six — but his foot prints are on the
sands of time. They will never be effaced. Now
that his busy brain is at rest — his voice stilled — those
who knew him as a man recognize that a giant has
gone from among them. The great Athenian philoso-
pher when asked by the Lydian King who was the
happiest among them, said no man should be
pronounced happy until he was dead. May happiness
be forever his.

From Winston-Salem Journal

The news of the death of this great North Carolina
educator will bring sadness to the hearts of our people
regardless of race or of religious or political persua-
sion. The women of North Carolina have lost their
ablest champion, the cause of education one of its

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most progressive leaders, and all of us the warm
friendship of one whose heart and whose intellect
was dedicated to the good he could do us. * * *
Today the State Normal and Industrial College is a
monument to his zeal and success in the education of

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No institution in the South has commanded the atten-
tion of the country to a greater degree than has
this institution under the presidency of this able
and forceful man. To its upbuilding he has
devoted the best years of an industrious and coura-
geous life. The women of North Carolina owe it to
themselves to perpetuate his memory by the erection
of a handsome memorial.

The people of Winston-Salem especially feel deeply
this affliction. It was among them he spent his early
days as an educator. Here he formed fast friendships
that death will not sever. Here he wedded in 1885,
Miss Lula V. Martin, at that time a teacher in the
city schools, who has been ever interested in the
realization of his fondest hopes.

Charles Mclver is dead ! Can we realize it ? Only
yesterday so strong and so enthusiastic ; now his work
is done. And it was a work that will live after him
and be an example to other young men whose advan-
tages in life are small. He was truly the greatest
Carolinian who ever wore that great Scotch name.

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From The Duplin Journal

Dr. Charles D. Mdver, President of the State
Normal College, at Greensboro, died suddenly Mon-
day evening. His death casts a gloom over the whole
State and saddens the heart of all its people. His
was indeed the great educational spirit of the State,
particularly devoted to the young women of the State.
The State Normal College was established largely
through his efforts and as its life-long President he
has developed it to its present high standard, which
is a magnificent monument to his educational zeal and
great executive ability. His death is an irreparable
loss to the State. * * * The alumnae in
our vicinity are overwhelmed with the loss of their
College President. Dr. Mclver is deservedly held
by them as the State's greatest benefactor, inasmuch
as he was the first North Carolinian to make any real
provision for the education of women. The work
he has started and established will live on to glorify
the man who gave his life to the highest promotion
and development of the womanhood of this grand
old North State. Just forty-six years, but what a work
accomplished ! The seeds sown will continue to germi-
nate while the inspiration of his zeal and personality
will live in the hearts of every Normalite and redound
for good throughout all the years to come. It is some-
thing to have known such a worker — a character with
the elements so mixed in him that nature might stand
up to all the world and say: "This was a man."

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May another like him take his place in the educa-
tional work of the young women of the State, and train
them to the noblest and highest ideals of life.

From the Daily Reflector, Greenville

The sudden death of Dr. Charles D. Mclver was a
severe blow and serious loss to North Carolina. He
was one of the State's best citizens and foremost
among the educators of the South. His place as presi-
dent of the Normal and Industrial College, in which
he has done such excellent service for the women of
the State, will be hard to fill.

From The Orphans ' Friend and Masonic Journal,

Oxford

Dr. Mclver was a man with a mission, which he
clearly conceived and faithfully fulfilled. He was a
wise, an enthusiastic, an indefatigable leader in the
education of young women and in every department
of educational endeavor. While his interest centered
in the work to him specially committed, to him
divinely appointed, he gave to other helpful agencies
and forces encouragement and active co-operation.
He was indeed an efficient toiler.

The enterprise to which he devoted so much of his
time, his means, his talents, for which he laid down
his life, will continue to grow.

The life of Charles D. Mclver will be an inspiration

to many to serve God and man more zealously day by

day.

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Who can measure the mighty influence of a man
allied with God in His great work for mankind?
Incalculable is the power for good of the life of our
lamented friend and brother. * * * *

As President of the State Normal College, as an
earnest and active advocate of the new education,
there is no estimating his service to the State. Only
the records above will reveal how many lives he has
touched and blessed. He is known abroad as a broad-
minded man and educational leader, but at home we
call him friend.

North Carolina has suffered a grievous loss in the
death of Dr. Mclver, but even greater is her pride,
that in her borders such a man has lived.

"Because this man is dead, I thank my God
That he once lived to glorify earth 's load. ' '

From The Landmark, Statesville

The sudden death of Dr. Charles D. Mclver Monday
at the early age of forty-six removed from this earthly
existence one who had probably accomplished more
for the intellectual life of the State in the past twenty
years than any other man in it. He was not only a
man of great ability, but he was a man of action,
one who brought things to pass. He was an enthu-
siast, and his enthusiasm was directed by executive
ability which accomplished results. Completing his
education he began to teach. He soon saw and felt
the need of better educational advantages for the

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young women of the State. The State had done much
for the boys, but nothing for the girls. Realizing the
inestimable value of an educated womanhood to the
citizenship of the State, Dr. Mclver set about to
accomplish results, and the State Normal and Indus-
trial College at Greensboro stands as an everlasting
monument of his work. In the years that are past
and in the years to come the thousands of girls who
have been and who will be educated in that college,
and the thousands who will be benefited directly and
indirectly through the young women who are educated
there, will hold in grateful memory the man who was
chiefly instrumental in establishing that Institution.
It is unnecesary to say that the loss of such a man
to the State is very great. Others will take his place
and the work will go on, but it is a cause for sincere
regret that the State and this generation is deprived
of the invaluable services of Dr. Mclver. He had
accomplished a great work while yet a young man,
a work that will endure and inure to the great bene-
fit of the State for years to come. He had earned the
rest that is now his and the plaudit well done ! But
men of his type are rare — they are all too few; and
while those near and dear to him have suffered the
great loss of husband and father, the State has
suffered the loss of a loyal and devoted son. He not
only strove to advance the cause of education and
through this means to uplift his people, but he also
strove earnestly to elevate the profession of teaching

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to its proper plane, and the teachers of the State have
lost their warmest defender and advocate in the death
of Dr. Mclver.

From Maxton Blade

Dr. Mclver was one of the foremost educators in
the South. A man of large experience, a fine scholar
and a deep and accurate thinker, he was largely the
moving spirit in the establishment of the State Normal
College for young women at Greensboro. He has been
President of that Institution since its establishment,
and his work there has brought splendid results. He
made himself known as an absolutely unbiased cham-
pion, a man who meant to the public not party nor
politics, but the one great cause he lived for. Thus
he antagonized none, and by arraying himself on
neither side of any question, did not bring any one
into opposition with him. Able as he might have
been to meet and overcome in the political battlefield,
he was able to do an even greater thing — to renounce
entirely the fascination of the contest, man against
man, that he might turn no one against the ideal he
worshipped.

From The Christian Sun, Raleigh

The cause of education not only in North Carolina,
but in the whole country, suffered an irreparable loss
in the death of Dr. Charles D. Mclver. That man did
not live in our day who has done so much for the

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cause of education, enlightenment, and the uplifting
of the masses as Dr. Mclver. While teaching at
Raleigh he worked industriously with legislators in
the endeavor to have established in North Carolina a
school for women. But not until he had canvassed
the entire State, laboring and speaking in every
county until 1891, did he bring the Legislature to
see and realize the need of a State institution for the
training of young women. When the College was
created in 1892 Dr. Mclver was made its first Presi-
dent and in that position remained till his untimely
death. Since Dr. Mclver 's great work for educating
women began the cause in the State has swept trium-
phantly on and he lived to see 3,000 women educated
because he fought for it. His clarion note, now
familiar to us all was:

"When a man is educated it is simply one more taken
from the list of ignorance, but in the education of a woman
the whole family is taught, for she will pass on what she
has learned to her children. The education of one woman
is far more important for the world's advancement than that
of one man."

Not only in the South, but in the North as well,
was Dr. Mclver regarded as a leader in education. He
persistently refused to be turned aside from his life's
work of educating women to enter politics or accept
official positions. He had an idea, and battled most
nobly to maintain it. He has built a monument for
himself, noble, inspiring, grand, that will not perish.

A strange thing took place when the train bearing

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Dr. Mclver's body and Hon. W. J. Bryan arrived in
Greensboro. Thousands had gathered to hear a polit-
ical speech. Instead of a partisan plea or a political
speech Mr. Bryan spoke to the people of the great
life and labors of Dr. Mclver. The audience was
melted to tears and the political gathering was turned
into a house of mourning. Mr. Bryan spoke from his
heart, for he and Dr. Mclver had been close friends
for many years, and the great throng hung upon
words made eloquent by sorrow and mourning.

From Raleigh Christian Advocate

This noted educator died suddenly on the train near
Durham on last Monday afternoon, while en route to
Greensboro, his home. He had attended in the morn-
ing the Bryan speaking in Raleigh, and was at the
time a member of the Bryan traveling party. His
death has occasioned grief throughout the whole State.
He was one of the State's first citizens. He was
known throughout the whole Union as one of the most
prominent educational spirits of the South. He came
from a farm, and by his resolution, studiousness and
unflagging energy he has impressed himself on the
life of the whole South. The State Normal and
Industrial College at Greensboro is one of his endur-
ing monuments.

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From The News, Chapel Hill

Mr. Bryan's trip from Durham to Greensboro was
indeed a sad one. Soon after leaving, Dr. Charles
D. Mclver died while on board the special train
just before reaching Hillsboro. His death was a shock
to his numerous friends here. The loss to the State
is great. As an educator he went a step further than
all the rest of the great men of the State. He was
the founder of the greatest institution in the State
for the education of women, the State Normal College.
His sudden and untimely departure is widely
mourned.

From the Union Republican, Winston

As a citizen and an educator, the death of Dr.
Charles D. Mclver will be long and deeply felt. His
work was State wide and will long survive. On the
pages of history his name will be inscribed among
those of Dr. Calvin H. Wiley and others, whose devo-
tion to the educational interests of North Carolina
was the main spring of their very life. For them
there was no sacrifice too great or labor too arduous.
Their work was nobly done and the results and high
standing of our public and normal school interests
stand today as a tribute to their memory.

From The Trinity Chronicle

Through the death of Dr. Charles D. Mclver,
President of the State Normal College, North Carolina

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has lost one of the foremost of her already too few
leaders in education, a loss that is all the more deeply
felt inasmuch as there was none who labored just as
he did in the conquest against the hosts of ignorance.
He early saw that the women of the State were being
discriminated against in the matter of education, and
thenceforth his entire life was devoted in their behalf,
and the fruit of it is the present State Normal and
Industrial College, with the hundreds of young women
who have been sent therefrom to teach in the pub-
lic schools of the State. His highest ideal was to edu-
cate women, and nothing could turn him from that
ideal. In business life, there were many tempting
positions which he could have filled with much more
glory and financial gain for himself, but all such
allurements were refused that woman — who in the
matter of education is more helpless than man, and
therefore needs man's strong arm to aid her — might
have a champion to fight for her. He was her knight,
sworn in his heart to serve her and see that she was
protected in her rights to all that is highest and most
ennobling, and he was always faithful, strong and
aggressive. The loss occasioned by his untimely tak-
ing off cannot be estimated, not even surmised.

As a token of the estimation in which he was held
by Trinity College the national flag that floats on the
campus was placed at half-mast last Tuesday.

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From The Warrenton Record

Dr. Charles D. Mclver, President of the State
Normal and Industrial College, at Greensboro, died
suddenly Monday evening. In the death of Dr.
Mclver the State loses one of its greatest and most
useful citizens. He leaves The Normal and Industrial
College as, a monument to his memory.

From The Scottish Chief ,Maxton

The only sad feature connected with the visit of
W. J. Bryan to North Carolina was the death of Dr.
Charles D. Mclver. Dr. Mclver was a member of
the reception committee. He was the personal friend
of Mr. Bryan and first invited him to North Carolina
twelve years ago to deliver the commencement address
at the State Normal and Industrial College.

Dr. Mclver was the foremost educator of North Caro-
lina. It was he who developed to its present gigantic
proportions the State Normal and Industrial College.
He was offered positions paying two to four times as
large a salary as the one he held, all of which he
declined. His death is a great loss not only to the
State but to the nation as well.

From The Elm City Miner

In the death of Charles D. Mclver, President of
the State Normal and Industrial College at Greens-
boro, the State loses one of its truly good, great

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men, one of its greatest educators and one of the
greatest benefactors to Carolina womanhood. He
died suddenly, ere his zenith had been reached, in
the prime of his splendid manhood. All lament his
death, bemoan the great loss that has come to our
people and State, and thousands of hearts are now
in tears. His life work has ended so far as it applies
to the business affairs of life, but the lessons that he
taught and the great influences that he exerted will
go on in endless sweep, and the memory of his life will
be embalmed in the affections of his countrymen and
our womanhood through countless years.

Ere the sod had fallen upon the casket that hides
him from view forever a movement was inaugurated
to cast in bronze the beloved form and face and thus,
not only in the hearts of his countrymen and women,
but in marble, perpetuate in ever-enduring form the
memory of his noble life.

From Durham Recorder

In the death of Dr. Charles D. Mclver the State
loses a good citizen, the cause of education its strong-
est support, and the State Normal and Industrial Col-
lege a President that will not be replaced soon. He
was a man with ideas and he did not exploit them for
other people to work out, but went to the plow himself
that what he believed in might be put to the front,
and he succeeded. His sudden death cast a gloom
over the State that only time will lift.

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From The Progressive Farmer, Raleigh

North Carolina and the whole South suffered an
almost irreparable loss last week in the sudden death
of Dr. Charles D. Mclver, President of the State
Normal and Industrial College at Greensboro. That
Institution is his monument, while for the present
general educational revival, the South owes as much
to Dr. Mclver as to any other one man — perhaps
more. Years ago he came to believe with all his soul
in the need of better facilities for the education of
women, and he worked until the whole State caught
his enthusiasm. "Educate a man," he declared,
' ' and you have educated one person ; educate a mother
and you educate a whole family." And the public
schools had no more zealous friend than he. He had
an ideal: the uplift of the Commonwealth through
education, and he consecrated himself to educational
progress, and rejected business offers of four times
his salary in order that he might continue in the work
he loved so whole-heartedly. * * * He
believed in doing things: "I'd rather be a what's
what than a who's who," he declared. The State is
richer for his life, poorer for his death, and she should
rear a worthy monument to a man who certainly
served her better than any politician of his generation.

From The Roxboro Courier

In the death of Dr. Charles D. Mclver the State
sustains a great loss, and a place is made vacant that

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will be hard to fill. He has done a work for the
uneducated girls of North Carolina that will last
throughout generations. His whole life was in his
work and the results accomplished by him in that
work cannot be measured. It seems only a few years
since he was going up and down our State urging our
people to establish a great normal training school for
our girls where the teachers for the public schools
could get that education and training necessary to
make successful women. Truly a great man has been
taken — and just in the prime of manhood.

From The Henderson Gold Leaf

The death of Dr. Charles D. Mclver is a distinct
loss to the State and to the cause of education. It is,
indeed, a public calamity. He had wrought a great
work, and still in the prime and vigor of his power
and usefulness — only about forty-six years old — it
seemed as if his best achievements had not yet been
accomplished.

From The Caucasian

The sudden death of Dr. Charles D. Mclver, Presi-
dent of the State Normal and Industrial College at
Greensboro, was a great shock to the people of this
State. He was one of the foremost educators, not only
of the State but of the South. He was a prime mover
in establishing the State Normal College at Greens-
boro, and has made that Institution what it is today.

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In fact, he devoted his entire life to the cause of edu-
cation, and while he has crossed the bar his life's
work will live as a monument to his memory.

From Tarboro Southerner

In the death of Dr. Mclver, the State loses one of
its greatest educators, who rendered valuable service
in promoting the educational interests of the State.
His heart was in educational work, and it will be diffi-
cult to find a President to succeed him.

Dr. Mclver 's sudden and untimely taking off will
be mourned throughout the State.

From The Smithfield Herald

In the death of Dr. Charles D. Mclver the State
has lost one of its most useful citizens. He has done
more for the higher education of the girls of North
Carolina than any other person in the State, and the
Normal and Industrial College at Greensboro will ever
stand as a monument to his earnestness and energy.

From The Newton Enterprise

The death of Dr. Charles D. Mclver, President of
the State Normal College, is a distinct loss to North
Carolina. He devoted his talents and the enthusiasm
of a very earnest and vigorous manhood to the advance-
ment of education and especially the education of the
North Carolina girls. He was only forty-six. His life

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was too short. But in it was accomplished great good.
The great State College for girls is his monument.

From The Catawba County News

We make no apology for giving so much space in
this issue to the death and record of Dr. Mclver. He
has for twenty-five years preached the gospel of pub-
lic education from the mountains to the sea. He has
made an impression upon the State of North Carolina
such as no other one man has made in his generation.
Telegrams of sympathy were received from the leading
educational institutions North and South. University
Presidents, Presidents of Colleges, State Superin-
tendents, State officials and men from all the voca-
tions of life assembled to pay a tribute of respect to
his memory at the funeral on Wednesday.

He literally gave his life for the elevation and
uplift of his own State. Other men have been induced
to leave the State by flattering offers of money. These
offers came to Dr. Mclver, but he turned a deaf ear
to them all, and chose to suffer and sacrifice if need
be for his own people.

One of the great men of North Carolina has been
taken away and the whole State will miss him.

From The Scotland Neck Commonwealth

President CD. Mclver, of the State Normal College,
died Monday, September 17th. His death is an irrep-

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arable loss to the State. He was one of the most active
and useful citizens in the State and one of the fore-
most educators of the South. He had given his life
to education and his best and strongest years to
establishing and managing the great and useful insti-
tution at Greensboro, over whose interests and destiny
he had presided from its establishment.

The State mourns the death of such a great and good
man and labors under a loss that cannot be repaired.
His work is his monument and it will bear eloquent
tribute to his worth for all time to come. The people
of his native State will long bless his memory and
the people of many States share our sorrow at his
sudden and untimely death.

From The Mooresville Enterprise

In the death of Dr. Charles D. Mclver, President
of the State Normal and Industrial College, the State
loses its foremost educator. His service to the cause
of education, most especially that of young ladies,
cannot be estimated. He was the originator and pio-
neer, in North Carolina, of education for the poorer
girls, and the College at Greensboro is his monument.
Valiantly has he wrought along the lines of education
and the fruits of his labors are to be seen on every
hand. To the cause of education he devoted his life,
and well was his work performed. Dr. Mclver always
had a kind and cheerful word for all and in all
his busy life always took time to speak to every

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acquaintance and he never forgot anyone. Truly a
great man has fallen.

From Gastonia News

The sudden death of Dr. Charles Duncan Mclver,
President of the State Normal College, cast a gloom
over the famous Bryan party, and the State will
mourn as the people all over the State hear of this
great man's death. He has done more for the educa-
tion of women in North Carolina than any other man
in it. * * * He made a campaign of the
State in 1891-2 that resulted in the establishment of
the State Normal College in 1892. Three thousand
girls have been educated in this College and its influ-
ence for good has been wonderful. Dr. Mclver gave
his life to one deed — that of the education of the
women of the State. He will go down in history as
one of the truly great benefactors of his State.

From The Elkin Enterprise

In the death of Dr. Charles D. Mclver, President
of the State Normal and Industrial College at Greens-
boro, North Carolina loses one of her foremost educa-
tors. Not only the State but the entire country will
mourn his sudden taking off. He was beloved by all
and the man who attempts to fill his place will have
an up-hill road to travel. "We doubt if there be one
in the State equal to the occasion, as his whole soul

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was in the work. Dr. Mclver was forty-six years old.
A great and good man has gone from us — peace to
his ashes.

From Presbyterian Standard

The death of Dr. Charles D. Mclver, President of
the State Normal College, at Greensboro, N. C, is a
loss to education that the South will feel for years.
Dr. Mclver was a product of the soil ; a broad-minded
Christian gentleman, a man of vision and willing to
serve, who has led the Institute from its inception
to a high place of public trust.

From Beidsville Review

Dr. Charles D. Mclver, the President of the North
Carolina State Normal and Industrial College, is dead.
This is an incalculable loss to the educational interests
of the State. Dr. Mclver was a great and good man. He
was in charge of the greatest work being done in North
Carolina, and his heart was in his work. It was for this
reason that the arduous duties of his great office were
discharged with such marked success. The death of
this man will be mourned by all citizens throughout
the State; but the grief will be felt most keenly by
the thousands of young women who regarded him as
a personal friend and to whom he has been a source
of inspiration and help in their efforts to secure an
education and the training necessary for usefulness
and success in life. H. A. Hayes.

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From Hertford Herald, Ahoskie

For two weeks we have devoted much space to pub-
lishing comments on the life and character of the late
Dr. Charles Duncan Mclver, who at the time of his
death was the foremost citizen of North Carolina.
It is well for our people, especially the young, to
read of the noble life of this great man who has made
the State richer and the people happier by his life.

From Waynesville Courier

In the death of Dr. Charles Mclver, North Carolina
has lost one of her best citizens and the cause of
education has lost one of its greatest and best leaders.

As a result of his efforts with manv
others, we now have at Greensboro a State School for
girls, the influence of which is felt all over our grand
old Commonwealth. From the first till his death Dr.
Mclver was the President of our great Normal and
Industrial College at Greensboro. The fact is he
was almost the Institution itself. It is to be hoped
that another of great skill in running the College
will be found, but certainly it will be hard to fill
the place with another of Dr. Mclver 's ability and
tact.

Dr. Mclver was not only well known in our State
but he was well known in educational gatherings
both north and south, where he was frequently invited
to make educational addresses. At annual meetings

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of county superintendents Dr. Mclver was one of
us not in office but in interest and sympathy in
every way to forward the cause of education in every
section of our State.

The teachers of our county will long remember
the fine address he made at the close of our sum-
mer Institute at Clyde. Every one went away encour-
aged by the talks made by our Superintendent of
Public Instruction and the lamented Dr. Mclver
who will meet with us on earth no more. He was
a Christian gentleman and a devoted member of
the Presbyterian Church.

It was a great privilege that he fell at his post of
duty. R. A. Sentelle,

County Superintendent.

From The News Reporter, Whiteville

One of the first things that caught my eyes as I
picked up my paper this morning was the announce-
ment of the death of that great and good man, Dr.
Charles Duncan Mclver. Imagine my feelings when
I realized that this man was gone to return no more.
What a loss ! What an incalculable loss ! The cause
of education in North Carolina loses one of its strong-
est and most substantial friends. Dr. Mclver loved
North Carolina and North Carolina loved Dr. Mclver.
We knew him personally and in his death we feel a
personal loss. How we will miss him in our educa-
tional meetings !

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We could always count on his presence, his sympa-
thy, and his help. The State Normal College at Greens-
boro is sorely bereaved. For about fourteen years he
has stood at the head of this institution influencing and
endearing himself to those who are the character
builders in our beloved State. All his students speak
so tenderly and affectionately of him, but he isi
gone and we bow in humble submission to the will of
Him who doeth all things well. He died young, at
the age of forty-six, but while he lived he worked. No
one kept busier. May his mantle fall on worthy
shoulders. F. T. Wooten,

County Superintendent.

From Monroe Journal

There is a movement on foot to build a monument to
Dr. Mclver, in the shape of a bronze statue at the
College. No monument could be more appropriate,
more deserved. Yet Dr. Mclver never made any
money. It has been said that a great man has not
the time to make money. Dr. Mclver was offered
several times his salary to do work in a business
way. Suppose he had taken it? A salary of ten
thousand dollars a year would have permitted him to
lay up money and to have soon got a start such that
with his ability he could have become a rich man
as the term goes down here. But what would have
become of the work he was doing for others? What
about the hundreds of people he was inspiring to do

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greater things? What about the numberless women
whose careers he was touching to bless? What about
the six hundred young women who last week gathered
as students at the Normal College? What about
the whole vast influence his life and work was exert-
ing in behalf of the cause of education, in the place
where there are fewest friends and most help needed ?
No, a thousand times no! He had no time to make
money for himself.

From The Polk County Neivs

In the sudden death recently of Dr. Charles D.
Mdver, President of the State Normal and Indus-
trial College at Greensboro, the educational interest
of the State loses one of its most valued members.
It is said no man is indispensable, but it will indeed
be hard to find a man who can fill such a position with
the ability and distinction of the late President.

From Daily Industrial News

It would be difficult to know where struck deepest
the root of Dr. Mdver 's greatness. Which was
the greatest? The man in whose brain was born
the idea of education for the women of North Caro-
lina, and who dreamed of a college where they
might come and learn; the man who, against heavy
odds, was the chief in bringing about the realization
of the ideal ; the man who, once the institution was an

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established fact, so guided it through adversity that
its very woes were made seeds for future greatness ;
the man whose wisdom and love were the inspiration
of every girl who entered the college to leave it a
woman, with his influence a part of her womanhood?
Dreamer, promoter, executive, teacher ? — which ?

Certainly, on the country at large comes the loss
of his intellect, for he was a prominent factor in the
educational movement, which is really the chariot
of progress, and to which belongs the honor of carry-
ing the country 's flag in the field of the nations.

Certainly to the Old North State comes home the
most closely the loss of his marvelous executive ability,
for he assembled the scattered and unorganized forces
of education, and made eager soldiers out of indiffer-
ent and even antagonistic conscripts, taking from the
Old North State the reproach of having sent no knight
into the educational field to fight the cause of its
women.

But the loss of the wise and loving teacher falls
most bitterly on the students he led and inspired,
on the women of North Carolina who have, because
of him, been active powers for good instead of pas-
sively accepting the world's good. There is a bitterer
loss still to those who would have come under his
influence had he lived, and who must do without it,
but these cannot, of necessity, realize that loss.

In Dr. Mclver was embodied the truest type of
patriot. He loved his country well enough to dedi-

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cate himself to her advancement, rather than to his
own gain. He loved his country as his eye, but the
apple of his eye was one southern spot in it — the
Old North State. With him her worship was a
passion.

At the last commencement exercises of the College
it was notable that repeatedly throughout the final
day he asked for the singing of that ringing melody,
"The Old North State." Not often enough could his
ears drink in its notes ; not often enough could he use
it as a vehicle to translate into the very souls of the
departing graduates his own spirit of true patriotism
that lived by the giving of service.

But there was one quality in Dr. Mclver not yet
mentioned which was nearer than any other to the
hand of the God that made him. One phrase in scrip-
ture describes it most perfectly, and is, more than
anything that has been said of him, his perfect
praise —

"And the common people heard him gladly."

Few are the men of intellect who can speak to
"the common people." Theirs is a different world,
a different tongue, and one of the tragedies of the
world is that they, whose mission it is to teach the
world, should speak and not be understood. But
this man, knowing the language of that mental world,
knew also how to translate it to the people he taught,
and more than that, he knew how to awake in their
hearts the love for the new language and the desire

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to attune their tongues to its melody. He could
first implant the longing for the seed, and then plant
the seed.

Idealist, promoter, leader, teacher, speaker to "the
common people," surely Charles Mclver was one
whom God when He made him, marked with the
title "Man."

From The Deaf Carolinian, Morganton

The death of no one within the borders of the
Old North State has so wrung the hearts of our
people or caused more universal grief than that of
Dr. Charles Duncan Mclver.

A chord of sorrow and sympathy has been touched
which will vibrate so long as the monuments of
character which he has erected in the lives of the
young women of our State shall remain. ' ' His works
do follow him," and the influence of them will go on
forever.

Not only the inner circle of his friends and the
College he founded — into which he breathed his
mighty spirit — mourn for him, but there is an outer
circle who know him only by reputation: other col-
leges and schools grieve and feel their loss most keenly.

How gratefully and pleasantly we recall the influ-
ence of his two or three visits to our School and his
interest in us ! Especially do we recall his presence
here a year ago, when he left New York, where he
was giving a series of lectures, that he might speak

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to the National Convention of Instructors of the
Deaf then holding its sessions in our Institution.
Such an influence did his speech make upon this great
Convention that it called forth from all over the
Union the most pronounced encomiums.

Taken away with full armor on, he must feel won-
drously at home today with his Lord.

Mrs. L. A. Winston.

From The South Atlantic Quarterly, October, 1906

While we go on in our routine in life, we judge
men by many standards — whether they are successful
and are doing their tasks well, or are of service to
their fellows and to society; or are interesting and
helpful companions ; or are courageous. Almost every
rule that we have is more or less modified by the
personality of the man to whom it is applied. We
even suspend judgment on one another — waiting to
see how each of us continues to do his task or to live
his life.

But when death startles us and cuts a career short
and we must measure the dead man once for all
we find ourselves asking first of all the one question,
how true and helpful he was to his friends, to his
community and to human kind ; for that is the highest
test after all.

Apply that test to Dr. Charles D. Mclver and he
measures so large — he reaches, the full proportions
of a great nature.

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I suppose that he was regarded as a close personal
friend by more men and women, and he had the
intimate confidence of more men and women, than
any other man in North Carolina. Whoever knew
him came close to him. The man who was most
engrossed and the slow fellow who had merely dull
and intermittent impulses to be of some use in the
world — each alike counted him a friend. He was a
brother to every human creature. When you or I
say, then, that we have lost one of our best friends,
we are but two of a great host of men and women
who are saying the same thing. Now this genius for
helpfulness is a quality of only very great natures.

Think, too, of the cheerfulness and of the hope-
fulness of the man ! That also is a mark of his great
nature. His beaming, buoyant personality was a form
of courage that never flagged; it was a constant
inspiration to everybody whom it reached, and it
reached far.

At Greensboro, on the day when he was buried,
there were men prominent in educational work from
Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia
and New York, who, through their tears, fell to telling
humorous anecdotes that illustrated his unbounded
cheerfulness and kindliness. Not one could have
recalled, if he had tried, a single bitter thing that he
had said or a single unworthy act that he had done.
They called him affectionately, " Charles" or "Mac"
— these leaders in educational work. What tribute
to a man that his friends should laugh and weep at

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once as they mourned his loss — what a touching
evidence that he touched the fundamental emotions!

His own heavy burdens, which he carried as only
the bravest men can carry burdens, were never visible,
and that also was a mark of a big character. I doubt
if any man can recall Charles Mclver's uttering a
single complaining word.

But these qualities of companionship and kindliness
and cheerfulness and bravery are not all that come
to mind in the grateful and affectionate memory
that we who loved him shall ever have of him. He
had another quality that only large men have — he
was a builder of things. He did not work aimlessly.
We have had no man among us who carried a truer
singleness of purpose or who had a more definite
aim in life than he — call it an inspiration, or a vision,
or a business, as you like — it was all these. He
moulded out of the public opinion of North Carolina
a great institution, which embodied a clear cut idea
and was founded on a definite philosophy of human
progress. It is a noble idea, too, for the State Normal
and Industrial College for women was literally made
by him out of the opinion of the State as the bricks
in its buildings were made out of clay by their
moulders. Everybody who knew him had heard him
expound his doctrine of the right training of women —
heard his arraignment of modern life — not in North
Carolina only nor in particular, but of modern society
in general — for its neglect of women. About this he
had the zeal of a crusader. Think how few other

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men in North Carolina, or in other States, have ever
built outright a great institution and you have a meas-
ure of the man. He built it once and forever, too,
for he planted it deep in the affections of the people
and especially the women.

Twice he had a chance possibly to become President
of the State University, but he considered his work
in building a College for women of greater import-
ance. He might at any time during the last six or
eight years, have received an income that would have
relieved him of all financial care and provided lux-
uriously for his family if he had given his time to
business undertakings. He was even advised by some
of his closest friends to accept such an offer. But
the building and the development of a great college
for the training of women (and by the training of
women, the lifting up of the whole people) was dearer
to him than all other aims in life; and he never
hesitated.

That, too, was the work of a great nature — that he
took his pleasure in building a worthy institution
and not in his personal comfort nor in the advance-
ment of any personal ambition or wish for future
honor.

May I say frankly here that the State must learn
to pay men, who fill positions like this, much higher
salaries than it now pays? Else it will not always
get the services of the best men. Dr. Mclver was a
pitifully underpaid public servant. The State has

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passed the place where it need be niggardly, or can
afford to be niggardly, to its great public servants.

And he had the quality not only of a builder, but
another high quality still — the quality of a popular
leader. There is no way of accurately measuring
his influence in developing public sentiment — in North
Carolina in particular, but in other States as well —
to public educational activity and to a higher life
for all the people. Outside the State, he was, I think,
everywhere regarded as the most influential leader of
the people for popular education that this genera-
tion of men has known.

A rare genius for friendship, a cheerful and uplift-
ing personality, a high and absorbing purpose which
admitted of no selfishness, the great faculty of a
builder of institutions and the great faculty of lead-
ing public opinion for the higher aims — Charles
Mclver had all these ; and any man who had such an
aggregation of high qualities is a great man. His
going leaves us poorer (a great multitude of us who
had his friendship,) and it leaves the State and the
nation poorer. Yet State and individuals are very
much richer for his life and work.

I should like to write it here (and many men could
make the same confession) that I owe him an incal-
culable debt, which can be paid only by an affectionate
remembrance — for his cheerfulness, his humor, his
inspiration and helpfulness of spirit, the example of
his unswerving devotion to one high task, his balanced
and happy view of life, his noble and intimate ser-

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vice of brotherhood. To us all and for us all, he
was, brother, builder, leader, a great force in our lives
and in the life of his time. The people of the com-
monwealth — all the people of the commonwealth —
had in him as true a friend and servant as was ever
born in the whole long list of our patriots and heroes.
No one ever loved the people more truly than he. He
was of us; he stood for us; he worked for us; he
believed in us ; and he had no ambition but ambition
for our development. That is the measure of his
greatness of nature and it should be the measure of
our affectionate gratitude.

His intellectual grasp of the fundamental problems
of a democracy was strong ; and it was not an intellec-
tual grasp only, but a moral grasp also. He had as
clear and well reasoned a philosophy of social improve-
ment as Jefferson had, and he had worked it out from
life — he had not merely got it from books. And he
had a humor and a faith in the mass of men as genuine
as Lincoln's. He was a fundamental, elemental man
— not a mere product of education and environment ;
and this is the reason that he was of close kinship to
us all. Nobody knew him who did not have much in
common with him.

A worthy statue of him, for which we have the pri-
vilege of subscribing will do us credit; for it will
show those who come after us what kind of man we set
high value on — the man who nobly builds for the
people and serves the people unselfishly. That is the

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kind of man to honor, for that kind of man is the
highest product and vindication of our democracy.

Walter H. Page.

Extract from North Carolina University Magazine,

October, 1906

* * * No one since Calvin H. Wiley has done
so much for the children of the State as Dr. Mclver.
No written memorial can quite indicate what he had
come to stand for in our Southern life and thought.
No meeting of Southern educators seemed complete
without him; no educational program satisfactory
until his name appeared on it. Almost every news-
paper in the State has said that his death was the
saddest calamity that could have come to North Caro-
lina in the death of any one of its citizens, and the
statement will not be challenged. There are men in
North Carolina possessed of higher scholarship than
he, but there is no one to compare with him in the
promotion of intellectual advancement and civic
righteousness — no one who seems to have been able
to throw himself whole-heartedly and sympathetically
into the people's cause and labor so effectively for
their children's welfare and happiness.

In the beautiful eulogy pronounced over his dead
friend, Mr. Bryan paid high tribute to Dr. Mclver 's
lofty idealism. It was this devotion of his to an ideal,
coupled with his boundless sympathy for the common
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others that made possible his splendid achievements.
He never allowed himself to grow out of touch with the
great masses. He was laboring for their advancement,
and he well knew that to help them he must be in
sympathy with their trials and struggles, their hopes
and their joys. He would meet the ignorant laboring
man from the backwoods district with the same
friendly smile and kindly greeting and the same warm
hand-shake that were given to the highest official,
and tell him in his inimitable style the same joke
perhaps; and somehow the common man knew that
beneath it all there was genuine sympathy — genuine
manhood. In a word, he was never handicapped by
becoming what the world calls academic.
# # * Flattering calls time and again came to
him to go to other institutions in other States, but
he disregarded them all, preferring to remain here
where it seemed to him his services were most needed,
even though they were not in a financial way so
well rewarded. His work came to absorb him
thoroughly — for he was watching and guiding the
very realization of his own dream. He saw that this
work was not finished, and he could not go. # *
Another piece of his work that must not be for-
gotten is the organization of the Woman's Associa-
tion for the betterment of School Buildings and
Grounds. If his fertile brain had done nothing more
for North Carolina than bring into being this Asso-
ciation, the State would still be his debtor — I had
almost said it would be amply repaid for every dollar

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it has ever expended upon the Normal and Industrial
College. To appreciate what this splendid organiza-
tion has done and is doing — and it is only in its
infancy — one has but to visit some of our rural com-
munities where its influence has been felt — it cannot
be estimated, it cannot be told, one must see it to
believe.

Dr. Mclver was a loyal son to his Alma Mater.
After graduation he attended every commencement
held here but one, and he would have come then but
was unavoidably detained at home. His Alma Mater,
too, has watched his career with pride and she has
gloried in his achievements. She has recognized in
him that type of manhood she desires to send out
into the world. In 1893 she conferred upon him the
degree of Doctor of Letters, and again in 1904 in
recognition of his faithful, efficient service, she called
him back to bestow upon him her highest badge of
honor, the degree of Doctor of Laws. The University
and the State are proud of his noble career. And a
hundred years hence, when this educational revival
shall have become a shining chapter of history, and
Mclver 's service shall be appreciated for its true
worth, if truth be not dumb and simple justice blind,
posterity must accord him a place with Murphy
and Yancey and Wiley, with Macon and Graham and
Morehead and Vance, for he has played no little part
in helping to shape the destiny of the State. His
work will endure. N_ w_ Walkbb.

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From Wake Forest Student

On another page Professor Carlyle has a very timely
article in appreciation of Dr. Mclver. But we cannot
refrain from the temptation of adding just another
word of sympathy to the great host of young women
over the State who had learned to love him, for what
he was and what he had done for them, but who are
now saddened because in the midst of a momentous life
their firm friend was smitten with death, and is no
more. No ! Not that, for he still lives, and long will his
memory be cherished in North Carolina. The work
that he did so well can not die, neither can he, for he
has reared his monument in the hearts and out of the
lives of mothers of the State, and the children of gene-
rations yet to come will be taught to revere and love
Dr. Charles Duncan Mclver, their mothers' best
friend.

He can ill be spared in the State just now, for
there is so much yet to be done by these mighty educa-
tional statesmen, but during his life he builded so
broadly and so firmly that what he has done will
remain to influence others to devote themselves to
this great field of activity and to take up the work
that our great educational leader has laid down.

From Guilford Collegian, November, 1906

Measuring greatness by the results of a life-work,
no man of North Carolina has equaled Dr. Charles

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Duncan Mclver in greatness. If a man is great who
causes two blades of grass to grow where one grew
before, how immeasurably greater is he who causes
a hundred minds to grow where one grew before!
If he be great who discovers a chemical or a physical
element which advances science and so revolutionizes
the world 's industries, how much greater is he who dis-
covers the elements of a people's greatness and who
convinces them of their power to make good those
elements ! If the inventor of rapid transit or of tele-
phonic communication be great, how little he is com-
pared with the man who waited not for the speedy car
nor for the telephone to take to the people the gospel
of work which should lift them and their children's
children out of the darkness of ignorance, who pointed
the way and led them up the steep places! What
sort of greatness is worth that which in twenty years
touched for betterment the lives of 200,000 children,
who will in an endless chain multiply his work so long
as North Carolina shall stand as a commonwealth?
This has been Dr. Mclver 's work. Can any man
show a greater? * # * * *

The work among us has been so great because of
the tireless passion for the people's welfare in the
heart of this inspired teacher that the movement has
passed beyond our borders, and other States both
north and south of us have felt the impact and been
shaken into new life. They called to him from Maine
to Louisiana and from the far West, saying: "Come
and help us. "

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To no call was he deaf. He went as gladly, with as
much fire and zeal, to the country school closing pre-
sided over by one of "the Normal girls" as he did
to a National Educational Association's meeting
where he touched and measured up to the great minds
— the leaders of thought of the world.

Since the opening of his college in 1892, its growth
and usefulness have been his first wish. To that he
has given his life. He made it what the editor of the
last Review of Reviews calls it : " The wonderful
institution" and "one of the finest schools for the
culture of women in the world." The same writer
speaks of Dr. Mclver as "one of the most useful and
important men of his generation in America. ' '

It is safe to say that there was no educational or
civic cause to which he did not lend himself. If not
his voice, pen or presence, then his purse was opened
and always with a gracious and generous hand.
No organization in his home city was complete without
him. He was Greensboro's and North Carolina's
first and best beloved citizen. Men once were jealous
of him — but not towards the end. He lived down the
littleness in the hearts of others. The last time this
writer saw him, he suggested the writing of a paper
which should bring into favorable notice the work of
one who years ago had striven to injure him. It
was a public service which had been rendered and he
thought it ought to be acknowledged publicly. His
stern, sturdy devotion to public duty was superior
to any thought of self, but he treasured no wrath,

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he kept alive in his heart no bitterness. His heart
was the heart of a boy. It was the eternal youth in
him that kept him bubbling over with fun, with
laughter, with the quick sympathy, with the impulse
to do and to do without delay. It was this mirthful,
loving heart of the boy that drew all hearts to him
with a magnetism not to be resisted. In his pocket,
when he had so suddenly fallen asleep, was resting
a communication from a little girl who had "copied
for Dr. Mclver's amusement" a rollicksome anecdote
which she thought would make him laugh. He did
laugh over it and made her little heart glad by an
appreciative message.

He married Miss Lula Martin, of Winston, August
29, 1885. In the early days of his career, some friends
called her his buoy and no woman ever more truly
kept alive in her husband the hope and buoyancy so
necessary for the success of such far-reaching plans
and labors as were his. At his side in the conflict,
abreast with him through the thick of the battle
for "State Aid," she did not cease to strive with him
and for the cause till success came. Then like the
loyal wife and mother that she is, she retired to her
fireside proud and happy.

God laid his finger upon him and he sleeps — the
body sleeps. The spirit lives. Honesty and faithful-
ness to his vision were his characteristics. No other
man so filled with civic virtue has lived among us.
His impress upon North Carolina will never be effaced.
Our young men and women have largely imbibed

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his traits. These will teach coming generations to

honor him as their greatest teacher.

As a leader of men he was wise and brave. When

opposition, misfortune, trials came, he was constant.

When justly offended, his wrath was temperate. As

a husband, father, friend, he was loyal and loving

down to the gates of death.

Annie G. Randall.

From The Religious Herald, Richmond, Va.

* # # Certain travelers, says Mazzini, relate
that they saw at Teneriffe a prodigiously lofty tree,
which by its immense extent of foliage, collected all
the moisture of the atmosphere, to discharge it when
the branches were shaken in a shower of pure and
refreshing water upon the parched ground. Such is
the function of great men in this world. They focus
the rays of light; they detect the subtle currents
of thought that are building up continents and wear-
ing away islands; they behold the divine significance
of the present day, so commonplace to eyes not
"purged with euphrasy and rue"; they embody the
potentiality of their time and magically reflect the
future; they are the pathfinders of mankind. Such
an one was Charles D. Mclver, who by a sudden death
last week was taken in the prime of life from high
public duties. The South has lost a true son; the
nation, a friend; and education, a creative spirit.

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I recall distinctly the first time that I saw Dr.
Mclver. It was at a meeting some years ago held
under the auspices of the Richmond Education Asso-
ciation. He lifted for me the curtain upon the field
of popular education in a democracy. With the zeal,
eloquence and contagious patriotism of Horace Mann
or J. L. M. Curry, he urged the necessity of making
the schools efficient by better houses, longer terms,
more adequate salaries and up-to-date methods,
because our material prosperity, social progress and
political power depend upon universal enlightenment.

On another occasion also, Dr. Mclver did valiant
service for this State. When on March 28, 1904, a
few friends of education were called together in the
Senate Chamber by the Governor of Virginia, with
a view to forming the Co-operative Education Asso-
ciation, an event that marked a new era in the history
of the Commonwealth, Dr. Mclver was there, to
encourage, guide and inspire this movement in the
interest of the people. For such constructive work
as this in the cause of education, he was peculiarly
fitted by his magnetic personality, solid judgment,
intense patriotism and enkindling enthusiasm. To
these qualities he added an experience rich in results
to his native State of North Carolina. It was an
epoch in the development of that State when, about
two decades ago, Dr. Mclver and his yoke-fellow,
Dr. Alderman, young men aglow with the spirit of
progress, began amid general lethargy a campaign
for the common schools. At first the work was slow;

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ideas had to be forged and energies awakened. But
ere long these prophets of a new order, industrial,
social, and political, were cheered by widespread
interest in all kinds of education. They made it plain
that it is the highest duty of the people in the South
to put their money, heart and brains into the school.
The result is written in the unexampled power which
the Old North State has been showing in recent years.
To four aspects of education did Dr. Mclver in the
main devote his energies. First, the common schools,
which he believed essential to the welfare of the masses.
Secondly, the training of teachers, because he dis-
cerned that all real efficiency in our schools must
begin with well-equipped teachers. Thirdly, the
education of women, because they are the chief
teachers of the children, both in the home and in the
school. To this end he founded the North Carolina
Normal and Industrial College, over which he presided
with such dignity and power till the time of his
death. Fourthly, the nationalizing of the educational
spirit and ideals of the South. He loved his native
State, but he loved it as a member of the Union; he
loved the South, but he loved it as an integral part
of the American Nation. He was big enough to
embrace in his affections the interests of the whole
country, and he wished all education to throb respon-
sively to this patriotic sentiment of unity. Hence
he was a vital agent in the work of the Southern
Education Board, of which he was the Secretary. He
stood squarely for the conciliatory and beneficent

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policies of that large movement. In consequence, his
influence was by no means confined to North Carolina
or the South. He had friends in all parts of the
Kepublic, in which his personality cemented the bonds
of Union.

Many a demagogue among us has made more noise
than Dr. Mclver, but no worker, perhaps, has been
more solidly useful in all the recent creative enter-
prises of our Southern people. He was without self-
seeking. Knowing the stress of circumstances in
which the South is placed, he was yet brave and cheer-
ful in his outlook upon the future. Quickening in
every way the individual growth and agricultural
development of the South, he kept always before him
the supremacy of the spiritual as it operates in educa-
tion, in law, in political morality, and in religion.
' i As poor, yet making many rich. ' ' If any young man
in the South is in search of a concrete ideal to follow
in life, I can point him unreservedly to Charles D.
Mclver, who, as a friend of humanity, had a sure

sense of power in behalf of humanity.

S. C. M.

From Richmond Times-Dispatch

No man in the South has done more to advance
the cause of education, and especially to dignify the
calling of teaching, than the late Charles D. Mclver,
of North Carolina, whose sudden death was announced
in yesterday's Times-Dispatch. By his public
addresses and in his writings for the newspapers and

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magazines, he impressed with overwhelming force
the importance of educating the children, and the
greater importance of committing their training to
the best teachers. He was himself an educator of
teachers, and the honorable institution at Greensboro
over which he presided has been the means of supply-
ing to the North Carolina schools the class of teachers
in which he believed. Every graduate sent out from
the State Normal College was not only trained in the
art of instruction, but was infused with the spirit of
Mclver, and impressed with the dignity and sanctity
of her calling. Dr. Mclver was a bundle of energy
and nervous and spiritual force, and when death
came it found him at work in the cause to which he
had given his mind, his heart and his character in
complete consecration. His death is an irreparable
loss to North Carolina and to the educational prop-
aganda of the South, but the energy and spirit which
he gave to the movement will be a continuing and
perpetual monument. The Times-Dispatch finds some
consolation in the remembrance that in his life we
gave him words of comfort, good cheer and encourage-
ment and now that his career is closed, in sweet
sorrow we lay upon his bier this wreath of pansies,
rosemary and laurel. * * *

Not long before his taking-off, a citizen of New
York died at a ripe old age. He had heaped up
treasure to the value of fifty millions and more, and
he did it honestly. The worst that was ever said of
him was that he drove hard bargains with those who

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were in urgent need of ready cash, but his customers
were rich and could afford to pay the price. He
did not trade with poor men, or widows and orphans.
He had done something for charity in his day, he had
led a moral life, and he was devoted to his wife. He
was a man of national reputation. His name was
familiar to everybody, and his birthday anniversary
was recorded in the New York newspapers as regularly
as it rolled around. When the end came suddenly,
there was a "flurry in Wall Street," for he was a
power in the financial world, and the newspapers
"featured" that story of his death, because it was a
noteworthy event.

But we searched in vain the editorial columns of
the newspapers for any "noble tribute" to his charac-
ter, and if any newspaper recorded that he was a
useful citizen, that the world was better for his living,
that he did anything for the uplift of humanity, we
failed to note it. Charles Duncan Mclver was a
poor school-teacher — we mean a school-teacher who
was poor in purse, for he was one of the best teachers
of his day and generation. He never bothered about
money for himself, although he spent much of his time
in trying to induce the taxpayers to pay better salaries
to the men and women who were educating their
children. Wall Street never heard of him, and his
death had no more effect on "the market" than the
death of a pauper. But every newspaper in North
Carolina made his taking-off the subject of an edi-
torial eulogy and they vied with one another in

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praising his character and his work. Newspapers in
other States were quite as generous in their laudations,
and his remains had hardly been laid to rest before
a movement was started to erect a monument to his
memory.

Look on that picture, then on this. Why the differ-
ence in popular estimate and popular regard? The
one worked for himself; the other worked for others.
The one got all he could; the other gave all he could.
The one heaped up ; the other scattered abroad.

Verily they have their reward.

From Columbia State

The people of South Carolina share with those in
North Carolina the deep sorrow at the death of Dr.
Charles D. Mclver. Dr. Mclver is well remembered
here. On several occasions he spoke to large audiences
upon the subject of popular education, twice in the
opera house and once in the state house. Not one who
heard him failed to be interested, and few who heard
him have forgotten the great force of the man and the
force of the great ideas he so entertainingly presented.
Dr. Mclver was a member of the Southern Education
Board, and North and South Carolina comprised the
territory allotted to him. He had made himself
famous before he ever came to South Carolina, how-
ever, having with Dr. E. A. Alderman, now president
of the University of Virginia, conducted a memorable
campaign for popular education in North Carolina.

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He was one school teacher who was a great "mixer."
and when he got out among the people of the country
he was able with his homely manner and his homely
illustrations and his great fund of common sense, to
impress them with the great importance of building
up their schools at any cost. His great work, how-
ever, to which he has devoted his life, was the educa-
tion of women. It was upon this subject that he made
an address in Columbia at the meeting of the Southern
Teachers' Association several years ago. Under his
able, inspiring administration the North Carolina Nor-
mal and Industrial College for women at Greensboro
has been built up in the face of adversity and mis-
fortune into one of the best in the South. Upon the
death of Dr. J. L. M. Curry, Dr. Mclver was named
by a large number of admirers as a fit successor as
general agent of the Peabody Education Board. This
position, it was thought, called for just such powers
as Dr. Mclver displayed. On the whole North Caro-
lina loses one of its most noble and valuable citizens,
and South Carolina loses a friend whom she had just
begun to appreciate.

From Baltimore Sun

The sudden death of Dr. Charles Duncan Mclver
removes one of the educational leaders of the South.
When he graduated from the State University at
Chapel Hill he found the public schools of North
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ity of the teachers were poorly equipped for their task,
the schoolhouses in most of the rural districts were built
of logs or were plank boxes, and the percentage of
illiteracy was probably greater than in any other State.
From his entrance into active life, Dr. Mclver devoted
every effort to bringing about new conditions in his
native State. First, to arouse public sentiment, Dr.
Mclver and Dr. Edwin A. Alderman, now president
of the University of Virginia, spent two years in going
through the State, preaching and teaching, holding
teachers' institutes in nearly all the 96 counties. Out
of this campaign grew the movement that led to the
establishment of the State Normal College for women
and the Agricultural and Mechanical College for boys.
In the face of a hundred obstacles, Dr. Mclver suc-
ceeded in founding the Normal College, of which he
was the first and only president. As president of the
Southern Educational Association, secretary of the
Southern Board of Education, and honored officer
of sectional and national associations, he came to be
the recognized leader of the educational movement in
the South that has attracted attention in every part
of the country.

From The Southern Workman, Hampton, Va.

The death of Dr. Charles D. Mclver, President of
the State Normal College at Greensboro, N. C, removes
one of the most interesting and striking charac-
ters of the South. Dr. Mclver was a leading southern

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educator, and perhaps did as much to make the com-
mon schools of the South what they are as any one
man, with the possible expection of Dr. Curry.

He was a man of rare ability as a speaker. His
sympathy with his people and his knowledge of their
real condition gave him wonderful power upon the
platform. No one who listened to his impassioned
appeal at Lexington, Kentucky, at the last session of
the Conference for Education in the South, will be
likely to forget the wonderful combination of delight-
ful humor and intense earnestness which character-
ized his address. He never spoke without appealing
for better opportunities for the young women of the
South. With the power of an artist he pictured the
place which women must hold in the building up of
a Christian civilization. He seldom spoke in public
without making an appeal for better chances for the
teacher. He often called attention to the fact that the
average teacher in the South receives a smaller wage
than the men who break stones upon the road.

In the Institution at Greensboro which Dr. Mclver
founded and to which he devoted the best years of
his life, he created an enthusiasm for the education
of the common people that means much to the future
of the South.

When the story of the real reconstruction of the
South is written, the name of Charles Duncan Mclver
will stand out in large letters.

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From The Educational Exchange, Alabama

Dr. Mclver is dead. So ran a few days ago the
saddening message over the South.

Millions knew him, thousands mourn his loss,
hundreds will remember him while life is allotted them.

Charles Duncan Mclver saw work to do, and began
it. Of that group who have refought recently the
battles of intelligence against ignorance, he was chief.

Always in earnest, ever in good humor, completely
saturated with the facts, never at a loss for a word —
Dr. Mclver was an apostle of education such as Paul
was of religion. He literally wore himself out in the
service of the people. He found time during his vaca-
tion to travel over the Southern States carrying his
inspiring message to thousands of teachers, and there-
by blessing myriads of children.

Sorrow has fallen into the hearts of all those
teachers in Alabama who heard Dr. Mclver at the
University Summer School. Many will take out their
notebooks and read again the words penciled there —
and a new meaning will come from those earnest, ten-
der, beseeching words.

From The Louisiana School Review

The South and the whole country as well suffered
an irreparable loss in the sudden death of Dr. Charles
Duncan Mclver on September 17, 1906. Even at the
time of the stroke of apoplexy from which he died,

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he was in the exercise of a public function as a repre-
sentative of his State, being one of a committee of
escort and reception extended to a visiting statesman
of national reputation — Mr. W. J. Bryan.

Dr. Mclver was identified with the great educational
movement now going on in his own State of North
Carolina, and in all the South. As an institute
instructor for a number of years in company with
other young North Carolina men — such as Edwin A.
Alderman and Charles B. Ay cock — he early impressed
himself upon the notice and appreciation of the citi-
zenship of his State. He succeeded in securing the
establishment of the Normal and Industrial College
for women at Greensboro, of which he was made Presi-
dent. In this position he has continuously carried
forward the solution of the educational problem —
which, as he clearly saw in the beginning, was the
introduction of trained teachers into every county
and every school. Meanwhile he had developed power
and influence as a speaker and a worker that brought
many demands for his assistance in other States.
Louisiana had him during the present year. The great-
est meeting of Louisiana teachers that ever assembled
— which was that held in Baton Rouge last April — had
Dr. Mclver as one of the principal speakers. Things
he said during those three days have been bearing
fruit in every parish in Louisiana and the work is
still going on. One of his strongest lines of work was
the urging of special taxes. His suggestions to super-
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rolls with a view to discovering how much actual taxes
the wealthiest citizens would have to pay in support
of a proposed school tax, or how much the chief oppo-
nents of the measure would have to pay — and what
proportion these amounts would bear to what they
ought to pay, etc. — these suggestions of Dr. Mclver
have probably caused more ' ' trouble ' ' as well as more
actual progress in Louisiana since that time than can
be estimated. Our schoolmen will ever have reason to
be grateful that his life was spared till after its influ-
ence had been directly given to them. His body now
may rest from labor — but his spirit marches on.

It is not generally known that there is in Louisiana
a substantial representation of a Mclver idea in
school building, that may now serve as a memorial in
a small way to our departed f ellow- worker ; namely,
the two octagon towers forming the front of the main
building of the Southwestern Louisiana Industrial
Institute at Lafayette, which are duplications, in
part, of two similar towers in the main building of
the North Carolina Normal and Industrial College.

But Mclver 's personality and self -surrender to the
general cause of education is his great monument with
us and with all.

From The Commoner, Lincoln, Nebraska

On another page will be found a well deserved trib-
ute to the late Charles Duncan Mclver from the pen
of Dr. Albert Shaw, the editor of the Review of

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Reviews. Dr. Mclver died suddenly on the special train
which carried Mr. Bryan through North Carolina a
few days ago. The latter 's first visit to North Carolina
was made twelve years ago at Dr. Mclver 's invitation
and from that day they were close personal as well
as political friends. Dr. Mclver was a rare man.
Having worked his way up from an humble station
he first showed what an ambitious young man could
do for himself, and then he dedicated himself to the
task of showing what a noble and unselfish man could
do for his fellows. He received flattering offers to
go into other occupations, but he regarded his occupa-
tion, that of teaching, as a calling to him and resisted
the temptation. He did not leave much money, but
he left what money cannot buy — a good name which,
as the wise man says, is rather to be chosen than great
riches, and loving favor, which is to be preferred to
silver and gold. The fortune which he left can not
be computed in dollars, and is a legacy to the entire
land. So great was the sorrow caused by his death
that the political meeting which was arranged for his
city that evening was converted into a memorial meet-
ing. How this old world would be transformed if all
of its people cherished the ideal which Dr. Mclver
followed along an ever brightening way!

From New York Times

The sudden and unexpected death of Dr. Charles
Duncan Mclver, of North Carolina, is a substantial loss

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to the cause of education in this country. He was the
President of the State Normal and Industrial College
at Greensboro, was a member of the Southern Educa-
tion Board, and had charge of the field work of the
Board in his State. He had been active in organizing
Summer Schools and Teachers' Institutes in North
Carolina, and was a tireless, energetic, and very
influential advocate of general education. With all
a Southern man's profound disapproval of any mixing
of the races, he held that it was the most obvious and
important duty of the State to provide for each of
the races the best possible schooling. In view of the
urgent needs of the South he advocated industrial
schooling as the dominant element. We think that
there are very few men in any section of the country
who have done better work for education in a more
effectual way than he. He was of Scottish descent,
and had the vigor, the shrewdness, the quick intuition
of the practical of his ancestry. He was a Southerner
to the core, and had the warmth, fervor, and lovable-
ness of the best strain of Southern blood. And he had
what may be called a Scottish-Southern gift of public
advocacy, direct and well denned statement, the zest
of deep conviction, a wit that flashed like a rapier, but
disarmed rather than wounded an opponent; a grasp
of principles and generalizations of a high order,
and a sympathy with his fellow-men that opened the
way for him to all hearts. A brave, faithful, generous,
and gifted leader, he will be sadly missed.

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From Little Rock Gazette, Arkansas

Dr. Charles D. Mclver, whose sudden death occurred
September 17th, while on his way to Greensboro, N. C,
as a member of the reception committee accompany-
ing Hon. W. J. Bryan to that city, was well known to
many of the educators of Arkansas. Hon. John H.
Hinemon, in speaking of him, said :

1 ' I feel that in the death of Dr. Mclver I have lost
a personal friend of many years' standing. He was
widely known among the educators of this country,
having for many years been a member of the National
Educational Association, and standing in the front
ranks of those who were prominent in its councils.
Two years ago he lacked only two votes of being elected
president of this great body, and it was understood
that at the next meeting he would be unanimously
chosen for this office.

"Dr. Mclver was a man of most attractive manners
and it was esteemed a privilege to number him among
one 's friends. A more conscientious man I have never
known. As an instructor he was second to none in the
South, and the position which he occupied as President
of the State Normal and Industrial College of North
Carolina attested the esteem in which he was held in
that State. The eulogy delivered by Mr. Bryan in
speaking of Dr. Mclver 's life was no exaggeration.
His life was indeed an ideal one and no man ever left
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who have enjoyed his presence at the annual meetings
of the National Educational Association."

From The American Monthly Review of Reviews,

October, 1906

Charles Duncan Mclver, who died suddenly last
month, was one of the most useful and important
men of his generation in America. If the country did
not know him well, it was because he was too busy
serving its highest interests to impress himself, as he
might easily have done, upon the entire nation. Dr.
Mclver was the President of the North Carolina State
Normal and Industrial College, an institution for
young women at Greensboro. That would have been
a worthy and honorable post for any man to fill, but
Dr. Mclver was much more than the administrative
head of a school for girls. He was a great educational
statesman at a time and in a section where the educa-
tion of the children ought in truth to be the foremost
task of the real leader of a State.

Dr. Mclver was not quite forty-six years old; but
his influence was already great, and his achievement
was of the sort that saves imperiled civilizations and
transforms communities. He recognized the fact that
the South was backward in its educational work, and
from the very day that he graduated at the University
of North Carolina he became an apostle of the move-
ment to improve the schools. He became an organizer
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leader in the work of creating rural schools under con-
ditions of lack and need such as can hardly be under-
stood in the North. He organized and conducted teach-
ers ' institutes in all the counties, and became the great
propagandist of progress in school affairs throughout
North Carolina.

He soon came to realize the fact that a good school
system could not be possible without a better trained
corps of teachers, and he determined to provide an
institution that would receive a great number of
promising girls from all parts of the State, give them
an education at small cost, and train them to be
teachers of exactly the type needed in the schools,
particularly of the rural districts. He appealed to
the Legislature with ultimate success, secured his
appropriation in 1891, and opened his school some
fourteen years ago. The State has dealt with him
generously, for Dr. Mclver's enthusiasm has never
failed to carry the Legislature in the direction of his
desires. Other very important educational posts from
time to time were open to him, but he felt that his
work could best center in the direction and develop-
ment of the wonderful institution he created at Greens-
boro. It is one of the finest schools for the culture
of women in the whole world and it will stand as a
monument to Mclver's energy and splendid talent,
both as an organizer and as a trainer of teachers.

In due time Dr. Mclver became the leader of a
remarkable movement in his State for the adoption
of a plan of adequate local taxation to supplement

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State funds in the carrying on of schools. The trans-
forming results of this campaign ought to be widely
known for their inspirational value elsewhere. His per-
sonal influence as an educational leader could not be
confined to the bounds of his own State and he became
influential throughout the South as one of the half
dozen foremost men in a movement for improving
school legislation and bettering practical educational
conditions.

He was a man of remarkable eloquence, and of
great readiness and power on all occasions in public
speech. He was famous for his wit, and for his
unlimited store of amusing incidents and anecdotes.

When the Southern Education Board was formed
some years ago he became one of its members, and as
chairman of its campaign committee his labors were
incessant and of priceless service to the cause. He
was president of the Southern Educational Associa-
tion last year, and was always one of the most promi-
nent men in the National Association, counting among
his close personal friends the foremost educators in
the United States throughout the North as well as the
South. If he had chosen to turn his energies into
political channels he would have been Governor of his
State and then United States Senator.

His efficiency and his gifts of leadership would
have made him a marked man, and a rare success in
any profession or calling. But he gloried in the work
he had chosen, and believed that the right training
of women, for the sake of the home and the common

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school, was the most fundamentally important thing
with which he could possibly concern himself ; and so
it was that he gave his strength and his life to that
work. He can be ill spared, but he had builded so
broadly and staunchly that what he has done will
remain. Furthermore, he had a fine gift for working
with other men and for bringing forward young
associates and colleagues imbued with his ideas and
spirit, and trained to promote educational progress
along the lines he had laid down. Thus, his work
will remain ; his memory will long be honored in North
Carolina; and in the loss of their noble educational
leader many of the citizens of his State will be the
more firmly resolved to devote themselves to the great
cause of which he was chief apostle.

Albert Shaw.

Editorial in The Outlook, New York, Sep. 29, 1906

In the group of men who must be counted among
the real leaders of the South of today, Dr. Charles
D. Mclver, who died suddenly on a train in North
Carolina last week, held a foremost position. Born
in Moore County, North Carolina, a descendant of
Scotch Presbyterians, his pluck, indomitable energy,
and practical sagacity bore witness to the strain in his
blood. The University of North Carolina, on its
beautiful eminence on College Hill, was his Alma
Mater, as it was of a number of the leaders of the
new educational movement, among them Dr. Alder-

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man, now President of the University of Virginia.
Dr. Mclver went at once from college into educational
work. He assisted in the organization of the public
school systems of Winston and Durham in his native
State; in 1886 he joined the faculty of Peace Insti-
tute, in Raleigh; from 1889 to 1892 he was State
Conductor of Teachers' Institutes in nearly all parts
of his State. He was one of the group of young men
upon whose souls the illiteracy of North Carolina lay
like a weight, and who responded to the silent appeal
of the uneducated with the passion and fervor of
religious enthusiasm. These young men entered upon
an educational campaign which must be regarded as
one of the most interesting and picturesque incidents
in the educational history of the country, though to
the campaigners it was chiefly hard work, rude fare,
and a tremendous exercise of will power to overcome
the deep-seated animosity of the audiences they
addressed to the payment of taxes for the support of
schools. In season and out of season Dr. Mclver spoke
in all parts of his State, and when the movement took
organic form his services and ability were recognized
by official position. He was Superintendent of Nor-
mal Schools, President of the North Carolina Teachers'
Assembly, and chairman of the committee which
secured the appropriation for the State Normal and
Industrial College, of which he became later the
head. When the Southern Education Board was
organized, he became a member, and as field agent in
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energy, courage, wit, humor, and a passionate inter-
est in his cause. He was an advocate of * * edu-
cation for the white and black, and this broad and
humane policy, with a generous provision from taxa-
tion for educational purposes, has now been substan-
tially accepted as the result of the splendid campaign
made by this group of men. Dr. Mclver died in his
early prime, but he had lived long enough to see the
South aglow with enthusiasm for education, and the
Summer School at Knoxville become one of the most
impressive educational assemblages ever seen in this
country. Dr. Mclver had served as President of the
Southern Education Board, and was a member of
the Council of the National Educational Association.

From The World's Work, December, 1906

* * * * After several years of teaching
in several private schools — the last a school for
girls — he had worked out a plan for the education
of all the people with which he took fire and blazed
till the end of his life. North Carolina was then
one of the most illiterate States in the Union. He
saw that the public school system must be developed
so as to reach all the people ; and he saw that teach-
ers must be trained for it. Then he discovered that
there was no proper provision for training the young
women of the State for teaching or for anything else.
There were a few private and church schools for
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women. For nearly a hundred years the State had
had a university for boys, but it was then utterly
neglecting the girls. The burning shame of this neg-
lect gave his career definite shape and made him an
apostle, or a crusader, for the rest of his life.
* * * * * Dr. Mclver's monument is this
school. But he was born to work with large masses,
to be a leader in a democracy. He was a schoolmaster
of the people. He knew everybody. He took a part
in every good movement. Many men have earnestness
and some have humor. Once in a long while nature
gives both these qualities in proper proportion to the
same man, and thus she makes a man that is invincible.
This bountiful endowment made Dr. Mclver ' ' the fore-
most citizen of his town, the foremost citizen of his
State, one of the most useful men in the Republic."
He had been President of the Southern Educational
Association, and he would probably have been the
next President of the National Educational Associa-
tion. He was a member of the Southern Education
Board and the chairman of its "campaign committee"
which directed a campaign for popular education in
several Southern States, all the other members of the
committee being men also engaged in educational work
in those States. He organized everything that he
touched — an association of women, for instance, to
improve the public schoolhouses. He continued to
stump his State and other States for the betterment
of the public schools; and during a few years of his
activity a new schoolhouse was built in North Caro-

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lina every working day. He had opportunities thrust
upon him of making a large income if he would give
his time to industrial pursuits ; he had offers of more
lucrative professional positions than the one that he
held. But he kept his own self-made place of leader-
ship, with its pitifully meagre income, much of which
he gave away to poor students, to movements for
civic improvement — to every person or cause that
meant the building-up of the people. For he believed
in the people with as deep a conviction as any man
ever had. * * * * *

There is at the College a mass of such literature of
a people's aspirations, gratitude, and affection as few
men 's work and death have called forth — autobiog-
raphies of women who were helped by him from hope-
lessness to usefulness and happiness — "human docu-
ments" so pathetic and yet so inspiring that a man
cannot read them without shedding tears and having
his faith in his fellows quickened. They say over and
over again: "He did me a greater service than any
other human being did." One woman wrote of him
as "the State's greatest benefactor, the supremest
friend of womankind, the kindliest heart." *

With a definite philosophy of human improvement,
with a cheerful, balanced view of life, here was a
born leader in a democracy who really believed in
the people, and who proved by leading an educational
revolution (it has been nothing less) that an uncom-
promising faith in them is abundantly justified.

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MEMORIALS

NORMAL COLLEGE MEMORIAL EXERCISES

Held at The North Carolina State Normal and Industrial College,
Greensboro, November 20th, 1906

PROGRAMME

Hymn — Rock of Ages.

Invocation — Rev. Henry W. Battle, D. D.

Duet — < ' O Spirit ! So Strong and Pure. ' »

Address — Dr. E. A. Alderman, President of the University
of Virginia.

Male Quartet — ' ' One Sweetly Solemn Thought. ' '

Address — Dr. George T. Winston, President of North Caro-
lina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts.

Address — Dr. F. P. Venable, President of the University
of North Carolina.

Address — Dr. James E. Brooks, Grensboro, N. C.

College Chorus — "Work Done, Come Home Today."

Address — Representing former Students of the College,
Mary K. Applewhite, of the Baptist University
for Women.

Address — Hon. J. Y. Joyner, State Superintendent of Pub-
lic Instruction.

Hymn — ' ' Nearer, My God, to Thee. ' »

Benediction — Dr. G. S. Dickerman, of Southern Education
Board.

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SWEETLY IMPEESSIVE EXEECISES
From the Greensboro Daily Record

Exceedingly beautiful and sweetly impressive and
solemn were the exercises held this morning in the
auditorium of the Students ' Building at the State
Normal and Industrial College to honor the memory
of Dr. Charles Duncan Mclver, the late lamented
President of the Institution, whose sad and sudden
death on September 16th cast a gloom over the Col-
lege, City and State, and spread to other portions of
the country where the departed had often appeared
in educational work and was loved and admired.

The memorial service was arranged by the Board of
Directors and Faculty of the College for the purpose
of giving expression to the profound sorrow which
his untimely death caused, and the program as carried
out and the complete occasion was one of tenderness,
sympathy and sorrowful love for the memory of the
departed executive officer of the College.

The attendance filled every seat in the spacious
auditorium and included not only those connected
with the College and numbers of representative citi-
zens, but all the members of the Board of Directors,
many former students, and a number of distinguished
educators and prominent men and women from differ-
ent sections of this and other States.

The beauty and impressiveness of the service was
enhanced by the quiet solemnity and sympathetic
interest manifested and which pervaded the vast

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audience, and many tearful eyes were to be seen as
the various speakers alluded to the loss to the State
that Dr. Mclver 's death occasioned.

INTRODUCTORY BY ACTING PRESIDENT JULIUS I.

FOUST

The Board of Directors and the Faculty have
deemed it appropriate that we turn aside for one day
from our ordinary labors to honor the memory of our
departed President. I feel that we honor ourselves
when we thus devote this time to honoring the name
of the great founder of this College. When we
measure his life by the standard of unselfish devotion
to a lofty ideal and by self-sacrificing service for the
betterment of his people, Charles Duncan Mclver was
one of the greatest men of his generation. No one
ever gave more freely of his large native power than
did he that he might elevate the citizenship of North
Carolina. While his usefulness as an educational
statesman made its impress upon the whole country,
his loss cannot be felt in any place as it is here in
the College that he founded and nourished. This Insti-
tution will ever remain a lasting monument to his
untiring energy and to his fidelity to the cause of
educated and trained womanhood. To those of us who
labored and worked with him the loss seems irrepa-
rable. It is therefore not only fitting but right that
we should meet today to recall some of his noble
characteristics.

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We wish to extend a hearty welcome to those who
have come from sister institutions and to the others
who are here to join with us in this tribute to our
great leader.

We are glad that so many of the former students
of the College whom he inspired by his example have
found it possible to be with us today. Their presence
is greatly appreciated. We wish them at all times to
feel that this Institution still claims them and asks
for their continued loyalty and support.

The people of Greensboro have always sympathized
with us in our joys and in our sorrows and we are glad
that so many of them have come to join in these exer-
cises and to show their appreciation of his unselfish
service to our city.

INVOCATION BY EEV. HENKY W. BATTLE, D. D.

Oh, God, whom we would devoutly worship, life is
Thy gift. The benignant bonds which unite society
are ordered of Thee; the faculties and aspirations
which work out useful and eminent careers are of Thy
bestowment. All powers within and all circumstances
without obey Thy pleasure, and Thou alone art great !
Lift our thoughts to Thee, as we enter upon the exer-
cises of this solemn and impressive hour, and fill our
hearts with profound gratitude for all Thy blessings.
We thank Thee for men — strong, resourceful, God-
fearing men ! — men of great brains, sympathetic
hearts, indomitable energies and noble purposes, and

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for all they have achieved on life's ever deepening,
broadening and advancing tide. We thank Thee for
him whose memory we honor today. Thou didst take
him to Thyself "at the bright meridian of historic
life," but not until he had attained the goal of his
fondest desires and bequeathed a heritage of price-
less possessions to the rising generation. We shed
our tears above his bier, but, touched with the light
of the Sun of Righteousness, they are transmuted into
a rainbow of glory ! ' ' Though dead he yet speaketh ; ' '
though the manly form be mouldering in the dust,
his conquering spirit beckons us on !

Give to us, we implore Thee, oh God, grace to dis-
cern and appropriate the lessons inculcated by his
life and death, and the tokens of a people's loving
appreciation. In the tender light of this sacred hour
enable us to see life and death and eternity as they
are.

Command Thy blessing, we beg Thee, upon those
interests so supremely dear in life to the heart of our
teacher, patriot, and philanthropist. Hasten the time
when the ample page of knowledge shall lie open to
every yearning heart and searching eye throughout
North Carolina and all our beloved Southland.

Bless all teachers, whether distinguished or obscure,
whether wearing titled honors and ministering in
splendid university, or performing offices of humble
service in regions too concealed for the world's recog-
nition and too remote for its ' applause. Oh, Thou,
who, whilst on earth, didst love to be called Teacher,

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bless them! and may they teach, as he taught, joy-
fully for Truth, our Country, and our God!

Vouchsafe Thy continued favor in richest measure
to this great Institution — the child of his genius and
his love. Like a mighty ship she has breasted the
waves, and now rides peacefully and majestically
upon a quiet sea. The strong hand of the pilot has
dropped from the wheel, but Thy hand is there !
and when to that other human hand shall be com-
mitted this beauteous and majestic Queen of the
Southern Seas, with her precious cargo of immortal
destinies, may the choice be Thy choice, oh, God !

Hear Thou now the prayer of tender and reveren-
tial love which goes up to Thee from each heart in this
vast audience; Holy Spirit, Blessed Comforter, go
with Thy sweet ministry where our feet may not
enter, and to the sorrowing hearts of these bereaved
ones, now draped in weeds of mourning, whisper,
' 'Peace be still. ' '

And this we humbly beg for Jesus' sake, Amen.

ADDRESS BY DR. EDWIN A. ALDERMAN

President of the University of Virginia

At Lake George last summer in the home of a dear
common friend, looking out over a scene of peace and
quiet, Charles Mclver and I were talking of life and
its meaning and the flight of time that had carried
us so swiftly past boyhood to middle life. Our moods
alternated between the kind of boyish, unrestrained
merriment possible only to men who have grown up

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together and a certain strain of premonition and sad-
ness. I recall saying, "Charles, you will outlive me
and you will probably have to write some resolutions
or say something about me when I am gone. Make
it short. Just say that we had a good time together,
pounding away at real things. ' ' He answered quickly,
1 ' Ed. Alderman, though I look stronger than you, you
may outlive me after all, and I give you the same
counsel. ' ' We were talking like children in the dark,
as all of us poor mortals must talk, but I realize today
how impossible it would be for me to speak in any
form of stately eulogy of this strong and faithful
friend, whom I knew so well and loved, and with
whom I worked so intimately in the service of society.
My very nearness to him and the elemental and vital
character of his personality, make it most difficult for
me to set down even this brief personal appreciation
of him in formal sentences.

All of us who were close to him have the impulse to
say simply, ' ' Here was a great, strong, hopeful, buoy-
ant, friendly soul, who loved his fellows and builded
enduringly for their welfare, and should be forever
honored by them." Further words seem vain.
Certainly, I shall not seek to recount the details of
his career today, nor to enumerate the positions he
held or could have held; nor in any fashion, to use
this memorial hour in a formal biography of him.

Charles Duncan Mclver was born in a rural Scotch
home, in the simplest part of the simplest democracy
in America. This Scotch home was full of cleanness

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and reverence and faith in the dignity of humanity
and in the power of knowledge, and all of its ideals
were ideals of self-respect and manly ambition. In
the existence of a multitude of such homes lies the
antidote for the dangers of our over-nourished civili-
zation and the safeguard of our republican ideals.

I saw him for the first time in the autumn of 1878
at Chapel Hill, whither he had preceded me by one
year. There was no mistaking the quality of this
great big country boy; eager, restless, purposeful,
hopeful, with a face and an eye wherein humor and
sympathy and shrewd discernment struggled for the
mastery. He had already become a leader among his
fellows. There was no better place, I think, for the
making of leaders in the world, than Chapel Hill in
the late seventies. The note of life was simple,
rugged — almost primitive. Our young hearts, aflame
with the impulses of youth, were quietly conscious of
the vicissitudes and sufferings through which our
fathers had just passed. "The Conquered Banner"
and the mournful threnodies of Father Eyan were
yielding place to songs of hope. A heroic tradition
pervaded the place, while hope and struggle, rather
than despair or repining, shone in the purpose of the
resolute men who were rebuilding the famous old
school.

All of us were poor boys. Those who came from
the towns looked, perhaps, a trifle more modish to
the inexperienced eye, but they were just as poor as
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simple homes of self-denial and self-sacrifice. The
unconscious discipline and tutelage of defeat and forti-
tude and self-restraint had cradled us all. We had
all seen in the faces of our patient mothers and grim
fathers something that we knew, if we could not
express, was not despair, and somehow, life seemed
very grand and duty easy and opportunity precious.

Reflect upon just a few of the names of the boys
that were there then and perhaps you will agree with
me: Aycock, Mclver, the Winstons, Doughton,
Strange, Peele, Phillips, Murphy, Daniels, Gattis,
Noble, Joyner, Thomas, Pell, Battle, Dancy, Worth,
McAllister, and many others high in industrial and
commercial life. Student ambitions in that day tended
almost entirely to law, or politics, or scholarship.
The great industrial awakening, which has since
beckoned, and now beckons, to so many of our young
men, to take a hand in transforming our civilization
from an agricultural into an industrial democracy, had
not begun to make its appeal.

After four happy years of steady growth in scholar-
ship and character, Mclver passed from the University
to the school room in 1881. I followed him into the
school room in 1882, and our intimacy as fellow
workers began in 1886, lasting unbroken and curiously
interwoven until that quiet hour at Lake George, and
in a deep spiritual sense, forever. He did his duty
as an under-graduate, respecting his body and his
spirit. He even won Greek medals, but his thought
was on men and student issues and college policies.

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The story of his life from 1882 to 1906 is a clear,
high story of human idealism and human achieve-
ment, which every boy in North Carolina should know
and ponder, and which should cause the older men
and women who listen to the strident voices of unrest
and pessimism, to know that the heart of this repub-
lic is true and sound, and that a heroic and noble
simplicity lies at the root of our life. It is not an
eventful story. It is not a story of thrilling vicissi-
tude or startling change of circumstance. It is a
story of earnestness and insight, of faith and purpose.
His marriage to a noble woman, who sustained and
strengthened him every day of his life ; his clear sight
of a great institution for the education of women in
North Carolina; his brief and resistless battle for the
attainment of that vision; a widening of that great
conception into a passionate and whole-hearted dedi-
cation of himself to the education of all the people;
the expansion of his nature under the spur of these
high ideals ; a splendid, joyous growth of his powers as
they faced and overcame the difficulties that blocked
his pathway ; a serene and noble satisfaction in behold-
ing his youthful dreams embodied here in forms of
dignity and beauty and human training ; the recogni-
tion of his worth, and the deep national value of his
service by the whole republic; and a sort of uncon-
scious apotheosis of him as the most useful citizen of
his native State ; the leader in all of its good causes —
is there not essential grandeur in the unbroken unity
of this upward-striving story?

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There are some scenes in our common experiences
between 1886 and 1890 that my heart recalls, and
that I shall mention even at the risk of bringing
myself into a picture, which I would fain fill with his
own glory and his own worth. The original idea of
the establishment of the State Normal and Industrial
College in North Carolina was undoubtedly born in
the brain of Charles Mclver. He did not borrow the
idea from Massachusetts or New York. The whole
scheme forced itself upon him out of the dust of injus-
tice and negligence right under his eyes. I recall the
day at Black Mountain in 1886, when he spoke of
it to me in his compelling way and won my quick
sjnnpathy and interest in the idea. His busy brain
and unwearying energy rapidly drew friends to the
movement, for no one who met him failed to hear of it.
Together we drew up the first memorial to the Legis-
lature in its behalf, and I remember the day in 1886
that he as chairman, and George T. Winston, Edward
P. Moses and myself, presented this matter to the com-
mittee on education. We knew that it was doomed,
but we came away elated and somewhat excited over
our first contact with legislative responsibility and
greatness. We might not have been so elated, if we
could have foreseen how much contact we would have
in the years to come, though, if he were here, I believe
he would agree with me in saying that the contact
did us good, and surely he gave back more than he
received.

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I recall commencement night at Chapel Hill in the
year 1889. We were to start out in a few days on
a new and untried experiment in North Carolina or
the South, a deliberate effort by unique campaign
methods to create and mould public opinion on the
question of popular education, involving taxation
for the benefit of others. Men like Wiley and Murphy
and Caldwell and Scarborough had fought this fight,
but not just in this way. We were in the twenties
and there were young wives and children at home,
and the work we were undertaking was a temporary
creation, due to the suggestion of the State Superin-
tendent of Public Instruction and the good impulses
of the Legislature, which could not quite make up its
mind to have done with us once and for all. There
was no precedent for what we were trying to do,
except Horace Mann, and he seemed so far off and
so great that each one of us would have laughed at
the other for mentioning the comparison. I remember
that we talked about our plans and purposes and
difficulties until the cocks began to crow. I told
him to let me say one more word and then let us both
go to sleep. He replied in his hearty, wholesome
way, that he did not propose to be put to sleep and
let me have the last word at the same time. We
then decided to make a night of it, and talked on
until the sun arose. I am inclined to think it about
the best night I have ever spent, for an intelligent
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and bound us for life to a service, which was not the
service of self. As I think of it today, the grim old
room in the Inn at Chapel Hill and the silent watches
of that night are lit with the light that never was on
land or sea.

For three years, in every county of this State, we
sought to mould public sentiment and direct public
opinion towards the development of an adequate sys-
tem of popular education and towards the establish-
ment of a school for the training of teachers. Some
day I shall hope to tell in detail the story of this
crusade, for such it was in spirit and purpose. It
had its discouragements and its comedies and its
mistakes, but it was a time of full-blooded enthusiasm,
exaltation and faith in the people, and the experience
taught Mclver and it taught me the essential lovable-
ness and justice and dignity of character and open
mindedness of the average North Carolinian in a way
we could never have otherwise learned. And some
good seed were sown, I think, which have increased
some thirty, some sixty, and some an hundred fold.
Mclver was doubtful at first of his ability as a public
speaker, but forgetting self in his purpose, he achieved
in an amazing way the very thing that he did not
think himself equal to, and quickly became the most
effective speaker for public education that I have
known in America. It was a dull and senseless audi-
ence that did not respond to his earnestness, the
breathless onrush of his appeal, heated red hot in the
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humour and power of illustration and a shrewd adap-
tation of story and anecdote, unequaled in North Caro-
lina since young Zeb Vance won his triumphant way.
His task was to plead with an individualistic and con-
servative community, hating overmuch by reason of
robbery and suffering the very word "tax,' for a
democratic and communal institution costing large
sums of money and a world of patience. His weapons
were persuasion and charm and earnestness and
humor and pleading and sympathy. They seem
feeble weapons as compared with the money of the
plutocrat or the force of the despot, but they found
the heart of this just and reasonable democracy, and
seem to prove that the solution of our peculiar diffi-
culties must come not by might or force but by the
spirit of love, justice, humanity, and progress.

Many of his striking phrases will long live in the
annals of educational growth: "The savage alone is
exempt from taxation." "The generations of men
are but relays in civilization's march on its journey
from savagery to the millennium."

"Education is simply civilization's effort to prop-
agate and perpetuate its life and its progress."

"The teacher is the seed corn of civilization, and
none but the best is good enough to use. ' '

* ' Ideas are worth more than acres, and the possessor
of ideas will always hold in financial bondage those
whose chief possession is acres of land."

"It is plain, therefore, that the State and society,
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ought to decree that for every dollar spent by the
government, State or Federal, and by philanthropists
in the training of men, at least another dollar shall
be invested in the work of educating womankind. ' '

' * If it were practicable, an educational qualification
for matrimony would be worth more to our citizen-
ship than an educational qualification for suffrage."

''Finally men began to seek education not that
they might become leaders in the State and in the
church, but first of all, that they might be strong men,
so that today seeing a man at college is no indication
that he expects to be a preacher or a politician. ' '

In company with Major Sidney M. Finger we wrote
the law now upon the statute books, creating this
Institution, and selected the location for these build-
ings, and I should be false to justice and generosity,
if I did not here pay tribute to the earnestness and
enthusiasm and faithful support given to us during
these days by Sidney M. Finger.

An interesting characteristic of the inspiring career
of Charles Mclver was its large unity and freedom
from complexity. In studying either the man or his
work, one does not meet with subtleties or whimsicali-
ties or irritating contradiction, but one beholds rather
a large movement of beneficent purpose, struggling
onward to perfectly clear ends, and a big hearty
nature ever "greeting the unseen with a cheer." In
a true sense, his earthly career began with his sight
of this school, and it ended where it began, but behold
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mindedness ! As a consequence of this stimulating
vision, came increased interest for popular educa-
tion ; as a result of his philosophic grasp of the mean-
ing of popular education to a democracy, came a
whole great theory of civic service and community
helpfulness and common-sense patriotism that tied
him in closest sympathy to everything helpful, from
hanging pictures on the walls of dreary country
schoolhouses, to large sentimental schemes of relight-
ing the fires of love for the homeland in the hearts
of those who had strayed away. A clear vision, there-
fore, and a clean consecration of himself, in the gener-
ous ardor of youth, to the pursuit of that vision,
wrought and moulded him into a kind of perfection
as an American citizen, exhibiting all the moral per-
sistence of the Puritan in a setting of sunshine and
sympathy.

"One who never turned his back, but marched breast for-
ward,
Never doubted clouds would break,
Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would
triumph,
Held, we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, sleep,
to wake. "

The personality of Charles Mclver interested and
attracted men more than any sum of his attainments.
His scholarship was not the scholarship of the schools,
but rather a genius for sympathy with scholarship.
Life was his thesis and men were his books and love

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his method. The Scotch passion for metaphysics had
passed him by, leaving in its stead a certain large
understanding and a hearty insight that revealed
any matter to him whole and entire. He gave the
physical impression of being in a hurry, but he was
never in a hurry mentally. He was a wilful man in
a good sense, and loved to have his own way, but I
have known no man with fewer blind prejudices to
obscure his vision. He was not the sort of man who
wanted everything, but the few fundamental things
he sought, he kept a searchlight upon, and his hurry-
ing figure could be seen moving toward them with
resolute purpose. The freedom from hindering prej-
udices, and this singlemindedness, gave him a fine
genius for co-operation and made him a beautiful
man to work with, for you knew that his pride was not
sticking out to get wounded, or his feelings to get
hurt, or his toes to be trod upon. You were dealing
with sanity and good will that knew when to com-
promise, when to surrender and when to fight. Men
called him a good politician and so he was, if you will
let me define a good politician as one who knows how
to compel men to do deeds of public service that they
would not have otherwise thought of.

He was a royal good fighter, too, if you will let
me define a fighter as a man who is clear as to his pur-
pose, who will not be gainsaid, who will not be set
aside, who will not be cajoled, and who will come to
his point. Besides, he was a Scotchman and had to

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fight something, and ignorance was his natural foe.
Men of strong character are sometimes good haters.
Mclver was a very poor hater. He could not hate
men and always exhibited a sort of pained surprise,
unaccompanied with any ill will or malignancy when
men despitefully used him. He simply could not
waste his moral strength in that most immoral of all
passions, hatred. If I were to ask what was the
greatest thing about Charles Mclver, I would say
that it was his interest and sympathy and love for
men and women, not attractive men and women alone,
or good men and women, or great men and women, —
but men and women. To him had come perhaps
dimly the feeling that in rights and opportunities
the final manhood of earth will be ''classless and
tribeless and nationless". A crowd always interested
him and stirred his powers no matter how weary he
was, and he moved about the crowd with a vast human
interest shining in his face. I have seen him stop
and speak to a young boy, half -formed and immature,
with an interest infusing his countenance, like that
which shines in the face of a collector, who has just
found a new object for his collections. The story of
the rise of men is full of men like Thomas Jefferson,
who loved humanity, and were willing to die for it,
but often they were shy of the units in the mass of
men. Mclver loved men and women as he found
them and they returned his love. The thing of deepest
interest in the world to him was to see people rise.

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He was happy when they succeeded and sorry when
they failed. Few men have worked through so busy
a life, with so much sympathy and appreciation. He
simply got what he gave.

Men who build or develop institutions, men who
strengthen or preserve social forces of their times, do
so through the exercise of faith and enthusiasm and
patience and courage and energy, and these words
might form a brief biography of Charles Mclver. As
our revolutionary age demanded the prophet of human
freedom, and the civil war period demanded steadfast
courage, and the industrial period the man of imagi-
nation and daring, so the decades between 1880 and
1906 in Southern history demanded men with faith
in education as a great agency for moulding social
and economic forces, and with power of personality
and of brain to influence the most majestic of all
human agencies — public opinion. Our institutions
needed to be democratized ; our thought to be national-
ized; our life to be industrialized, and the whole
process was one of education. The school was the heart
of the South 's problem and Mclver saw that truth,
and he will live forever in the history of this State as
a great leader in this movement of transformation.
It was, besides, his unique distinction to build outright
a great institution. The State Normal and Industrial
College, planted in the love and in the hearts of the
people, will grow fairer in outward form, and richer
in inward power, and as it grows the great traditions

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of his devotion will grow with it. In Emerson's fine
phrase, this institution will be for all time the length-
ened shadow of one man 's life.

It is the purpose of those who love him to erect a
statue to his memory. In so doing they will honor
themselves and teach objectively a great ethical lesson
which should not be denied our youth, but this School
is his real monument. An institution of learning is
the best earthly type of immortality. It is the only
thing under the heavens that grows younger and
stronger with the years. It is a creature of deathless
function, of endless needs, of immortal youth. Great
grand-daughters will journey to it as to a pilgrimage,
while young children will be playing about its knees,
and the influence of all influences that will guide its
life will be the influence of Charles Duncan Mclver.

As for me, his death struck close at the foundations
of my life. It was a thing my mind had never con-
templated, for a certain unconquerable boyishness in
him precluded the very thought of silence and the
grave. I could not think of death in connection with
this happy-starred, full-blooded man, in love with life
and work. His passing closes for me a cycle in my
life, a companionship of dreaming and work, of hope
and accomplishment, associated with the morning of
life. Such work as he did must always go on and
I would fain be in it and of it, but his absence some-
how gives to it a kind of loneliness and quite another
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strange coincidence to which he often alluded, we
drew closer to each other in actual intimacy than ever
before. Benign fortune set us to doing over an area
extending from the Gulf to the Potomac, what we had
once tried to do over the hills and valleys of North
Carolina. We met often each year, sleeping in the
same rooms and talking in the night. I saved my
stories' for him, and he saved his for me, and his were
always better than mine. He incarnated North Caro-
lina to me, suggesting its wholesomeness, telling me
its incidents, its ambitions, its progress, and bringing
me news of our old friends — those that had died and
those that had married and those that were fighting
the battles of ambition and life. Each meeting with
him was a bath of youth and good feeling and courage,
that left me cleaner and stronger and fresher for my
own tasks. I shall miss him sorely in this breathing
world, though he is not dead either to my sight or
spirit. Not only is he alive in the vague spiritual
sense of the choir invisible, moulding the ideals and
purposes of men, but he is alive and vital somewhere
upon some mount of faith, and busy at work upon
some good cause.

"O, strong soul, by what shore
Tarriest thou now? For that force
Surely has not been left vain.
Somewhere surely, afar,
In the sounding laborhouse vast
Of being, is practiced that strength,
Zealous, beneficent, firm."

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ADDEESS BY DE. GEOEGE T. WINSTON

President of The North. Carolina College of Agriculture and

Mechanic Arts

"There is nothing better than that a man should
rejoice in his work." So spoke the preacher thou-
sands of years ago. If he were here today, he would
see it verified in the life of him whose memory we
cherish. Mdver's epitaph should be, "He rejoiceth
in his work."

Though cut off in the very flower of manhood, his
life was long, if measured by work performed. At
the early age of twenty he found his mission in life.
Not a day passed from that time until the very
instant of his death that all his faculties and energies
were not employed in public service and for the
public good. He lived a quarter of a century as
teacher, school organizer, public speaker, philanthro-
pist, patriot, promoter of education in every form and
of every movement for the public good. The public
services of this man in twenty-five years repaid North
Carolina her expenditures for over a century in
establishing and maintaining the State University.
He was the real Father of the Public Schools. His
life work was complete. He worked so lovingly, so
zealously and so efficiently, that others now may easily
bring to completion that work whose foundations and
lines of development he so wisely planned. He was
the greatest worker of his generation.

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How we cherish the memory of his sunny face, his
buoyant manner, his lively action! We shall seek
to preserve in marble and in brass the lineaments of
his face and figure, to remain for centuries a memo-
rial of his life. May we not also transmit to pos-
terity a nobler and more enduring memorial by imi-
tating in our own lives the imperishable lineaments
of his immortal spirit and transmitting them for per-
petual imitation to the youth of the State? He had
wisdom without guile; charity without sentimen-
tality; prudence without timidity; strength without
rudeness ; gentleness without weakness ; humor with-
out selfishness; and everlasting confidence in the
triumph of truth and justice !

ADDRESS BY DR. F. P. VENABLE

President of the University of North Carolina

I have come, not to make a speech, but to mingle
my sorrow with yours over the friend whom we all
have lost. And yet the busy brain, the great, loyal,
loving heart is stilled, and the brave spirit with its
matchless energy is at rest.

How unstinted he gave of his wisdom and strength
to his friends is known to you, and the supreme sacri-
fice of his life was given to the work which he loved,
for he wore himself out in the service of his people.
The life which he might have lived was only two-thirds
lived out, but how full were the years, how splendid
the results achieved!

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Others may tell you of the work that he did, of the
enduring monument which he built in this Institu-
tion,— I have come to mourn him as my friend.

Years ago, when his life work was opening out
before him and the splendid opportunity for service
was filling him with enthusiasm, he came to me, a young
teacher absorbed in my science, and by his forceful
plea touched my soul also with something of his
burning desire for the education and uplift of all
the people of our State. It has been a great work
and in it he has had no peer. I am glad that he has
been my friend. I am proud that he was trained and
nurtured by the University, the great school of the
people, and that he drew his inspiration there.

Year by year I have followed his work with pride
and sympathy. Nt^have watched the development of
his powers, his growth as an effective public speaker,
as an organizer, as a controller of men, his abounding
energy and his multiform usefulness, I have feared
the effect upon his health of his self-sacrificing labors
and the constant round of toil for others, and now the
end has come and the sacrifice has been made.

When the great responsibility of my present work
was laid upon me, he came to my aid as few others
have done. With a loyal and most helpful friendship
he stood by my side. The University has many loyal
sons, but there was no one who loved her more unself-
ishly or served her more devotedly in all time of need
than that high, brave soul whom we mourn today.

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The University, beloved by him, mourns for her
noble son, and in a common grief clasps hands with
her younger sister, his hope, his pride, his splendid
monument through all years to come.

O noble soul, beloved teacher, loyal friend, well
done !

ADDEESS BY DE. JAMES E. BEOOKS

Representing the Guilford County Alumni Association of the State

University

This is the age of wealth. The dominant ambition
of the man of today is the accumulation of great riches.
There is no longer a learned profession whose chief
members are not a prey to the attractive business of
piling up silver and gold. These men appear to count
their lives well spent when this is accomplished. More
prominence and wider discussion are given to the
rich man and his affairs than to any other personage
in our civilization. He occupies first rank in the
esteem of public opinion. Deference and awe are
lavishly paid him by all classes of society. There is
more current literature on a dozen kings of finance
than there is on a hundred of the most eminent
scholars and scientists living.

During the past twenty-five years the art of money
getting has eclipsed all others. Enlisted in its cause
have been a majority of the most powerful minds of
the world, and especially is this true in our own
country. The most resourceful and ingenious intel-
lects from all professions have put aside their chosen

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work and engaged in its employ. The ambitious man
of high attainments will quit the pulpit, the bar, the
bench, the chair of philosophy, or even the alluring
charm of political preferment, to become a captain
of industry. The glamor of wealth entices the heart
away from careers where men are required to fight,
suffer and be misunderstood.

With the history of the world before us with which
to compare and interpret our own time, we are com-
pelled to call this age the Age of Avarice. Nor is
this what posterity has said of us; it is the verdict
we render against ourselves.

Doctor Charles Duncan Mclver was not of this type.
He was made of better stuff. He cared nothing for
wealth, though he thought the teacher and profes-
sional man in general too poorly paid. He had no
desire for luxury or display, and yet he longed for the
day when the worn-out professional man should have
substance laid away to soften his declining years.
Great wealth could not tempt him. He was too
intense, too much concerned about his work to put
his heart into the cheap things money could buy.
When he reached man's estate the vision of a great
mission came to him and never for an hour from the
time he went from our beloved University till that
September afternoon when his great spirit took its
flight from time into eternity did he lose sight of that
vision.

Great enterprise does not stagger great minds — it
inspires them. It brings them forth. The neglected

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woman was as great an inspiration to Charles D.
Mclver as the neglected individual was to Thomas
Jefferson. Her neglect brought him forth. When
he came upon the scene, our State had a splendid and
time-honored University for the education of its men,
but it had shamefully neglected to provide for the
education of its women. Prospective students for
college training were sought for in homes of college-
bred mothers and among the well-to-do. This man
went into the highways and hedges over our entire
State and everywhere preached the doctrine that the
State owed as much to its daughters as it did to its
sons, and he lived to see his doctrine triumph.

Napoleon said of himself that he could not be repro-
duced — that it was not necessary that his like should
come again. So with Dr. Mclver. He cannot be repro-
duced— the times will not call for his like again. He
completed his era. The man who follows him will
have a new work to do — a new task awaits him. Dr.
Mclver completed his own work.

The Man of Destiny cannot be swerved from his
purpose. The pretender falls a victim to the enemies
along the way. Nothing but God can change the plans
of the man of destiny. The splendid scholar may fill
the university chair and even enlarge its influence ;
his attainments may be of the highest order, but he
is only filling a place made by someone else. The
Man of Destiny creates his own sphere. Dr. Mclver
was a man of destiny; he created his own sphere,
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have thwarted him in his enterprise. He was the
greatest force and personality our State has produced
in our day. He stands alone in the uniqueness of his
character.

It is my sincere conviction that no greater man
than he was ever born on North Carolina soil. We
have produced great men, but we have not said much
about them. We have been content to read the
glorified deeds of gifted men of other sections of our
country, written by admiring historians of their
respective States, while our own great actors have
been neglected.

The history of this man 's life will be written. Some
man, inspired by the heroic endeavor of this great
Carolinian, who gave himself for his fellow-man, will
tell the true story of his life. It will be an inspiration
to every child in the land.

Mighty in spirit, mighty in deed, he fought a good
fight, he kept the faith, he finished his course.

ADDEESS BY MISS MAEY K. APPLEWHITE

Of the Baptist University for Women

Representing Former Students of The State Normal and Industrial

College

It is my pleasure and privilege to speak for the
four thousand students of the State Normal College
and to pay their tribute of love and appreciation to
the man who was to them more than the efficient
President of this College, who was their inspiration,
their counsellor and their friend.

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From a student's first correspondence regarding
entrance into the College, Dr. Mclver's swaying influ-
ence was perceived. On entering the College his strong
personality was felt by every individual student. In
a short time she felt herself the possessor of a true
friend. Narrow opinions were changed to broader
views and the horizon of girl-life soon enlarged while,
even more than that, it was deemed a privilege to enter
largely into the activities of college life as a prepara-
tion for that broader sphere of activity that lay
beyond graduation.

As the years drew nigh graduation, his influence
became more keenly felt and he impressed upon each
class the fact that their graduation meant only the
beginning of work as a citizen and as a student.

To each one he seemed to give a solemn charge :
Serve thy State ; and he inspired each individual with
a passion for human progress. His high ideals of citi-
zenship were reflected in the life of every student who,
as the higher type of woman, the citizen woman, is seek-
ing to help on the spirit of uplift in her own State.

As counsellor and friend in college, Dr. Mclver was
more than even that to the Normal girl when, standing
alone, as it were, she had begun her life work. No
matter what phase of life — were it the home, the
teaching profession, the business world, he was ever
ready to help by his sincere interest, his faith in her,
and his tolerant and loving sympathy with all the
little trials that came to her.

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And now that his life among us "has of a sudden
been stopped" we wonder how our work can go on.
Who will give us the friendly advice, the wise counsel ?
Whence will come the inspiration that his words and
presence always imparted? Almost could we be
bowed with our grief and loss, and yet, remembering
the spirit of him whom we loved, we cannot. What
Dr. Mclver has been to the students of the college
can never be taken from them. His influence is
immortal. His was not the spirit of useless repining,
his was the spirit of facing bravely each situation,
turning his face to the light and laboring with all
his strength.

Do you remember one of his favorite quotations
from Owen Meredith ?

' ' No life can be pure in its purpose and strong in its strife
And all life not be purer and stronger thereby."

His influence upon all students illustrates the force
of those oft-quoted lines. His life was pure, his pur-
pose strong, therefore our lives are purer and stronger
for his spirit among us.

For all that he would have us stand for in North
Carolina or elsewhere, — that will we endeavor to be.
This Institution, the fruit of his thought and love
and labor, shall stand as his work only begun, and by
his loving influence it shall continue to grow. We
stand, as we have always stood, ready to uphold it
with our loyalty.

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As a tribute to his memory, we bring ourselves, all
girded and ready to face the problems and to carry on
the work which he, looking down the coming years
with the vision of a seer, saw would be ours to face
and do.

ADDRESS BY HON. J. Y. JOYNER

Superintendent of Public Instruction of North Carolina

' ' O for the touch of a vanished hand,
And the sound of a voice that is still!"

Could I obey the dictates of my heart, I should
pay the tribute of a sacred silence to my dead friend
today amid these scenes hallowed by a thousand mem-
ories of him. My love and admiration are too great
to find expression in matter-moulded forms of speech,
but use and wont must have their due and I, too,
must try to speak.

He was the truest friend, the warmest-hearted, the
most generous, the most actively helpful, the most
self -forgetful. He loved his friends and they knew
and the whole world knew that he loved them. He
sought their counsel, loved their companionship, and
found their approval sweet. He was ever on the alert
for opportunities to help them and to enable them to
help themselves. He often saw such opportunities
and seized them for his friends before they saw them
for themselves. I have known him unasked to lay
down his work and travel across the State at his own
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a friend a kindness. He never allowed anyone to
speak evil of his friends in his presence, or to misrep-
resent or misunderstand them unrebuked and uncor-
rected.

And he was the friend of all mankind. All who
knew him were his friends. He had the genius of
friendliness. He made friends with strangers more
easily than any man I ever knew. There was in him
that touch of nature that dwells in every elemental
man "that makes the whole world kin" and made
him at home and at ease with the learned and the
unlearned, with the high and with the humble. It
was this that gave to his friendliness that personal
touch that made so many his personal friends and
filled so many with a sense of personal loss in his
death.

He loved his State and his people. He was con-
secrated to their interests and jealous of their honor
and reputation. Love of North Carolina and her peo-
ple became a positive force in the life of every student
that ever came within the circle of his influence.

He was full of hope and good cheer, of sunshine
and of sympathy. He scattered these wherever he
went. His presence was a joy and a benediction. In
it, selfishness was shamed, the tongue of slander was
silenced, littleness, narrowness and prejudice slunk
away.

"The weak and the gentle,
The ribald and rude,
He took as he found them
And did them all good."

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He was full of enthusiasm and his enthusiasm was
contagious. He was full of courage and his courage,
too, was contagious. He was full of strength, and the
weak grew strong and the strong grew stronger, under
his influence.

He was full of energy, tireless, persistent energy.
He was full of honesty, moral and intellectual, private
and public, old-fashioned, rugged honesty. It beamed
from every feature of his face ; it shone in every act
of his life ; it rang in every tone of his voice. There
was nothing hidden about him because there was noth-
ing to hide.

He was full of faith in God and man, and faith
in the final triumph of the right. Therefore, he never
gave up a fight for right and was never cast down by
defeat. The blood of the Scotch Covenanter flowed
in his veins and devotion to duty and consecration to
conviction were ruling passions with him. He was
ever impatient with the lack of these in others. He
was a hard fighter for what he believed in, but he
always fought a clean fight; he always hit above the
belt ; he always respected a generous foe ; he bore no
malice when the fight was over.

He had "a hand as open as day to melting charity."
He could never turn a deaf ear to any cry of need
or to any call for any worthy object. How much
he gave away will never be known until the great
record is opened at the great white throne. Money
to him was "so much trash as may be grasped thus"
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He had large capacity for enjoying the good things
of this life and believed in enjoying them in all proper
ways. Often have I heard him quote with heart-
iest approval the words of the old showman in
Dickens, ''The people muth be amused." In his
philosophy of life, pessimism, puritanism, pharisaism,
asceticism had no place ; religion pure and undefiled
had large place.

He was a man of great intellectual power and of
rare versatility — a masterful man. Power dwelt in
him and went out from him. .

There was in him much of saving commonsense;
much of creative and constructive power; much of
that gift of vision vouchsafed only unto greatness.
He was a fine judge of men. He took their measure
with almost unerring judgment. He saw their faults,
their weakness, was patient with them and pitied
them. He saw their virtues, their strength, admired
them and used them. He never allowed the one to
blind him to the other. He had the rarest power
that I have ever known of finding the best in men
and getting the best out of men. He was a great leader
of men.

Without any of the arts of the orator, he was the
most convincing, the most irresistible speaker that
I have ever heard. He was too intense, too earnest
to employ paltry decorations of speech. He spoke
directly and simply as one having authority. He had
a message and felt — woe is me if I do not deliver it.
He forgot himself in his message. Men heard him

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gladly, thought not of the manner of the man or of
the forms of his speech, but never forgot the message
that fell from his lips, the fire of earnestness and
enthusiasm that was struck from his soul as he spoke,
and kindled fires in theirs as they listened.

He would have been successful in almost any calling
— what a great lawyer he could have been; what a
supurb leader in politics and public life; what a
splendid captain of industry in any line; what a
prince of promoters in any great commercial enter-
prise ! He could have been almost anything he chose
to be.

All his splendid powers he joyously laid upon the
altar of public service. I believe that God anointed
him and set him apart as a servant to his people.
He heard the call to service and followed it as singly
and as devotedly as ever noble knight in Arthurian
legend followed the Holy Grail. He had a high ideal
of public service and to it he subordinated every
tempting offer of private gain or personal aggrandize-
ment. Public education was his chosen field of ser-
vice. With the clearsightedness of greatness, he saw
that universal education was the only hope of univer-
sal emancipation and the only safe foundation for
the broadest democracy. He saw, too, that the surest,
shortest road to universal education was the education
of woman, the mother and teacher, and, through her,
the education of all the children of men. To this
special field, therefore, he devoted his chief attention,
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not receive his helpful touch. His conception of public
service, however, was not narrowed to the one field of
public education. He was active in every field that
offered opportunity for public service in social, politi-
cal and commercial circles, — in his town, in his State
and in the nation.

This was the man, Charles D. Mclver, as I knew
him — great in mind, great in heart, great in service
to his fellow-men — how great, men did not fully under-
stand while he walked beside them, but know now
by the lengthened and ever lengthening shadow of
his life that death has thrown across the State, across
the South, across the nation. He is gone! To those
of us who knew him best and loved him most, life
can never be the same again, there can be no other
friend like him.

"He is not dead, he doth not sleep —
He hath awakened from the dream of life. ' '
1 ' 'Tis Death is dead, not he. ' '

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STATUE IN BRONZE
GOVERNOR'S PROCLAMATION

To the People of North Carolina:

The life work of Charles D. Mclver is ended. For
twenty-five years he served his State with fidelity,
zeal and efficiency not surpassed in her annals. No
one has rendered the State a greater service.

It is now the high duty and privilege of the
people, whom he served with unselfish devotion, to
manifest their grateful appreciation of his life and
character by a memorial that will transmit his mem-
ory to posterity and be a perpetual incentive to the
youth of the State to emulate his example.

An heroic statue in bronze, * * to stand
on the grounds of the great Institution that he created,
has been selected by general consent as a most fitting
memorial. ******

In order to raise the necessary funds and take
other steps for securing the statue, there should be
at least six committees, representing the varied
interests promoted by his life, to solicit subscriptions
from the people. I hereby appoint the following
chairmen of these committees :

1. For the Teachers and Children of the Public Schools:
Hon. J. Y. Joyner, Ealeigh, N. C.

2. For the State Normal and Industrial College and its
Alumnse: Miss Gertrude Mendenhall, Greensboro, N. C.

3. For the Women of North Carolina: Mrs. Lindsay
Patterson, Winston-Salem, N. C.

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4. For the University, Colleges and Academies: Dr. F. P.
Venable, Chapel Hill, N. C.

5. For the Men of North Carolina: Col. W. H. Osborne,
Greensboro, N. C.

6. For the Press of North Carolina: Hon. Josephus
Daniels, Ealeigh, N. C.

I request each chairman to select a full committee,
of not less than five, and to organize the same imme-
diately for active work. The chairmen of these com-
mittees shall constitute a general executive committee.

Charles D. Mclver's entire life was given for the
better education of all our women, the improvement
of the educational opportunities of all our children,
the uplifting of all our citizenship, and the elevation
of all our ideals of civic service. His work touched
helpfully all classes of our people. Surely, now, we
will all vie with each other in establishing this
memorial. R. B. Glenn,

Governor of North Carolina.

McIVEE LOAN AND SCHOLAESHIP FUND

From The North Carolina Journal of Education

On Tuesday afternoon of November the twentieth,
a large body of alumnae and former students of the
State Normal College met in the Administration
Building. This meeting was held immediately after
the memorial exercises. There were representatives
present from every class that' has gone out from the
Institution since its organization.

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The object of this meeting was to establish some
permanent memorial that would fittingly express the
love of the students for their great teacher. Several
plans were proposed, but the entire body united on the
following motion, which was offered by Miss Mary
Applewhite : "I move that we establish as an ever-
lasting memorial to Dr. Mclver, a Mclver Loan and
Scholarship Fund, with the understanding that, if
at any time we see that we can aid the Board of
Trustees in carrying out any specific plan, our funds
may be for the time diverted into such channel, but
to revert afterwards to the original purpose."

It is the purpose of the alumna? and former stu-
dents to raise a large fund, and to call upon all the
women in North Carolina to contribute to this fund,
for it was Dr. Mclver 's life purpose to lift woman-
hood in his own State. No definite amount was fixed
upon, but it is the desire of these young women to
raise such a fund that no needy student may be denied
an education, but that the Mclver Loan and Scholar-
ship Fund shall be sufficiently large to assist every
one who is unable to provide the necessary means, but
who desires a college education.

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McIVEE MEMOEIAL DAY

From Preface to North Carolina Day Pamplet

To the Teacher:

We have deemed it wise and proper to turn aside
this year from our plan of celebrating North Carolina
Day in the public schools by the study of the great
events in the past history of the State in chronological
order to let the children study the life and character
of one who, in years to come, will be recognized as
the greatest educational leader of our day and as a
great central figure in the educational and industrial
development of our State. We wish this day to be
devoted, therefore, to a reverent study of the life,
character, and unselfish service of Charles D. Mclver,
the children's friend, the teacher's friend, the State's
friend, the effective and courageous champion of all
that vitally affected the interests of these.

We know no more effective means of teaching to
the children of this generation the all-important lesson
of civic service and civic duty, of inspiring them with
the highest ideal of patriotism and right living and
of inculcating in them the best educational doctrines
than the study of the splendid object-lesson in all
to be found in the simple story of the life and teach-
ings of this man.

Every child in North Carolina ought to contribute
something to the fund for the erection of an heroic
bronze statue to his memory. Such contribution
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forgotten, in properly honoring the memory of a great
teacher who unselfishly devoted his life to the children
and the State. * * * * *

Very truly yours,

J. Y. Joyner,

Superintendent Public Instruction.

McIVER MEMORIAL, EXERCISES OBSERVED BY THE

PUBLIC SCHOOLS

From The North Carolina Journal of Education

North Carolina Day this year will be celebrated as
"Melver Memorial Day," in honor of the late Charles
Duncan Melver, and on the frontispiece of the pam-
phlet will appear a splendid half-tone engraving of
that orator, educational statesman and teacher. The
date named this year is Friday, December 14th.

The program is as follows :

' ' The Old North State ' '— By William Gaston.

Charles Duncan Melver — A Sonnet by Prof. W. C. Smith,
of the State Normal and Industrial College.

Charles Duncan Melver — A Sketch by R. D. W. Connor,
of the State Department of Education.

"The Coronach ' '—By Sir Walter Scott.

"He Died Poor That He Might Make Others Rich"—
By Josephus Daniels, Editor of the News and Observer.

Charles D. Melver as I Knew Him — By J. Y. Joyner.

America — By F. S. Smith.

Some Stories of Charles D. Melver — By J. Y. Joyner.

Southern Educational Problems — Extracts from Addresses
by Charles D. Melver.

Ho! for Carolina"— By W. B. Harrell.

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The subject for discussion this year is a departure
from the rule of the past four years, which has been
to study the history of the various sections of the
State. But it is fitting that the public school pupils
throughout the State should have brought close to
their attention the life of this man who has done
so much for the cause of education in North Carolina
and in whose death the State has lost her greatest
educational leader.

UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA

Press Correspondence from Chapel Hill

The next number of the University Record, soon
to be issued from the press, will contain a sketch
of the life of the late Dr. Charles D. Mclver, written
by a member of the University faculty. Dr. Mclver
was a most loyal alumnus of the Institution, and
a deep loss is here felt on account of his death. There
was general and profound sadness among the students
Tuesday morning when President Venable announced
Dr. Mclver 's death, and spoke briefly but fittingly
of the life and service of this man and of the State's
loss in his death. Later in the day the old college bell
was tolled as a mark of respect to his memory.

Dr. Mclver 's devotion to the University never
lagged during the twenty-five years elapsing between
the time of his graduation and his death. During
this period Dr. Mclver has failed to attend only
one University commencement. In recognition of
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sity twice conferred honorary degrees upon him.
About ten years ago he was given the degree of Doctor
of Literature, and two years ago the degree of Doc-
tor of Laws was conferred upon him.

DAVIDSON COLLEGE

Special Correspondence to Charlotte Observer

Davidson, Sept. 24. — President Smith after chapel
yesterday morning addressed the students on the life
and services to Church and State of the late Charles
D. Mclver. This was the first opportunity offering
for a memorial service in honor of the distinguished
educator since Dr. Smith's return from the funeral
in Greensboro. His remarks and eulogistic review
of the dead man 's work in behalf of education and his
unselfish devotion to the cause that he espoused in
early manhood and toiled for through twenty-five
years were heard with manifest interest. This life-
story is truly one that has in it inspiration and
encouragement for any noble-hearted and aspiring
youth, and the example is one that any man might be
proud to imitate closely. Dr. Smith spoke of his
struggle against the lack of early advantages, such
as wealth and influential friends might have given
him; how, without any "boosting" from outside, but
only by his indomitable pluck and energy and strength
and determination, united with health of body and
fine mental capacity, he climbed to positions of honor
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no exaggeration to say would have placed him in the
governorship had he desired it. * * *

What were the special elements contributing to such
success? First, his uncommon, marvelous energy.
It was no unusual thing to hear him described as a
"steam engine." As there is no true success for a
lazy man, so there is the most marked success for a
man who knows not what laziness is. A leading
citizen of Greensboro, he was on every committee
where there was special work to be done, and usually
Dr. Mclver was the committee, so far as the labor
and the responsibility were concerned.

Second, his unselfish devotion to things outside of
himself and his own personal interests. He gave
himself to the upbuilding of the State Normal College
and nothing could tempt him to abandon that work.
* * His leisure time was all spent in lecturing
and working in the interest of education * *

Third, his warm heart and kindly nature that
made friends, disarmed those who would fight him
and made him universally beloved. Among those
who knew him there were not two camps, one of foes
and one of friends — all men esteemed him.

Fourth, earnest, faithful consistent Christian
character. This, after all, was the basis of his other
virtues and excellencies, this was the root from which
sprang all the other graces and qualities that adorned
his life. He is justly entitled to be called a great
man, great in his aims and ideals and plans and in
the work accomplished.

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WAKE FOREST COLLEGE

Special to Daily Industrial News

Wake Forest College, Sept. 19. — Yesterday morn-
ing at chapel exercises President Poteat spoke of Dr.
Mclver 's usefulness to the State and said, in part:

"It is fitting that we should pause this morning
because of a matter that is of concern to all enlight-
ened citizens of North Carolina. Dr. Mclver was a
man . of sunny, genial disposition and consequently
made friends everywhere. There is no man probably
in North Carolina who has done so much for the
public schools of the State, and he, probably more
than any other man, deserves credit for placing our
public schools in their present system. * *

"Dr. Mclver is probably most remembered for what
he has done for the girls of the State. Not only has
he been a representative of the girls of North Carolina,
claiming for them an education, but in most respects
stands out in prominence for having brought about
opportunities for the obtaining by the girls of an
education equal to that of the men. Through such
efforts as these the State Normal College came into
existence.

"The death of such a man is a public calamity."

TRINITY COLLEGE

Special Correspondence to Charlotte Observer

At chapel exercises yesterday morning (September
19th,) Dr. Kilgo spoke of the great loss to the State

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caused by the death of Dr. Charles D. Mclver and,
as a token of the high esteem and admiration in which
he was held by Trinity College, the national flag,
which floats each day over the campus, was lowered
to half mast and so remained during the day.

GUILFORD COLLEGE

Press Correspondence

Guilford College, Sept. 18. — The faculty and stu-
dent body of Guilford College realize very keenly the
loss to the State in the death of Dr. Charles D. Mclver,
President of the State Normal and Industrial College.
In the chapel exercises this morning President Hobbs
spoke of the great life of the deceased president.
He said in part :

"We recognize in the death of our friend, Dr.
Charles D. Mclver, the removal from amongst us of
the greatest champion of popular education that the
State has produced, a man of great energy, tireless
perseverance and undaunted courage. His keen sense
of discernment, his almost unequaled power of argu-
mentation, and his popular and even captivating
method of oratory, along with his devotion, amounting
to a consecration of his entire being to the cause of
education, combined to make Dr. Mclver a great man
and have won for him a name not only in North Caro-
lina and throughout the South, but in the entire
nation.

"He saw twenty-five years ago what was the vital
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day and night, and produced results that have seldom,
if ever, been equaled in any part of our country. He
was called of God, I believe, to champion the cause
of education at a time when no one could have suc-
ceeded but a born reformer. He possessed the quali-
ties specially fitted to arouse communities and the
entire State to the absolute necessity of education to
preserve the life of the Commonwealth through the
training of young people for service. Dr. Mclver
accomplished a work for women that will perpetuate
his name forever in the history of North Carolina;
and the State Normal College stands as a monument
to his genius and to his splendid power of achieve-
ment. ' '

WHITSETT INSTITUTE

Special to Charlotte Observer

Whitsett, Sept. 20. — In speaking to the students
of Whitsett at chapel service this morning concerning
the life of the late Dr. Charles D. Mclver, Dr. W. T.
Whitsett said in part :

"A friend of humanity and a prince among teach-
ers has fallen asleep. Dr. Mclver was interested not
alone in his special work for the women of the State,
but felt a deep interest in all things that looked
toward the advancing of humanity along all nobler
and higher lines. He was a splendid type of the
citizen-teacher, and as a man of affairs ranked with
the best. The results of his study and thought he
freely gave to the world that all might share in the
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felt deeply in Greensboro, the city he loved so well,
and in Guilford, his adopted county, but it did not
stop there; it went out over North Carolina and the
entire nation.

"His faith in the ultimate triumph of that which
was best was so strong that he would rather suffer
defeat today, and triumph in the future, than to yield
to his convictions along the lines of his higher efforts.
Among the teachers of the entire South he was a
mighty force, and wherever two or three were gathered
together to plan for the betterment of our children
there he was always hopeful and willing to toil and
labor that others might be helped.

"The entire educational world will mourn his sad
death sincerely and it will be long until we can recon-
cile ourselves to feel that we shall hear his inspiring
voice no more ; but his influence is eternal and will
always move among us to help on to higher ends/'

OAK KIDGE INSTITUTE
Special Correspondence to Charlotte Observer

Chapel exercises yesterday morning (September
19th) were converted into memorial exercises in honor
of the late Dr. Charles D. Mclver. Addresses were
made by the principals of the school and others.

OXFORD SEMINARY

Raleigh News and Observer

Oxford, N. C, Sept. 20. — At the close of chapel
service this morning President Hobgood paid the
following tribute to the memory of President Mclver :

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"When a life of high ideals and noble purposes
passes out, it is fitting and helpful to pause a while
and consider this life. Such a life was Charles D.
Mclver's. In common with thousands of others, I
mourn his death. He was my warm personal friend,
whom I greatly admired. His removal from the
ranks of the educators of North Carolina is the
greatest loss that has occurred within my recollection.
I do not hesitate to say that in my opinion he has
affected the educational interests of the State in a
greater degree than any other man that has ever lived
in it. I remember well his first appearance in the
Teachers' Assembly, in which body he soon rose to
great influence. He was the prime mover in the
establishment of the Normal College at Greensboro,
which is his monument. He was chairman of the
committee appointed at several sessions to memo-
rialize the Legislature for the establishment of this
College; and knowing how to influence men, and
thoroughly persevering, he, with President Alderman,
of the University of Virginia, his able coadjutor,
finally succeeded in inducing the Legislature to estab-
lish it. The next great work that he accom-
plished for the public schools of the State was secur-
ing the passage of an act authorizing communities
to vote a special tax to extend the school term. The
third service he rendered the State was in behalf of
better supervision of public schools. At first he pro-
posed that two or three counties elect a first-class man
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counties. The success of this movement was far be-
yond his expectation, for very many, perhaps a major-
ity of the counties, have a superintendent giving his
whole time to the schools of his county. This review
takes no account of the great work that he did
in institute work, especially that part of the institute
work that related to educational rallies, in which he
made addresses to the public to arouse educational
sentiment. I am not attempting to give his life in
detail. He was thoroughly devoted to his calling.
Large salaries offered to turn him aside from his work
had no temptation for him. He could say in his
heart with the great Prof. Agassiz: 'I have no time
for making money. '

' ' Mclver lived a devoted life and passed away in its
prime. He had accomplished the work that God gave
him to do on earth, and I do not doubt that the same
talents and zeal so conspicuous here are in use today
in some other sphere of the universe. ' '

PEACE INSTITUTE
Raleigh News and Observer

There was celebrated yesterday, at Peace Institute,
Mclver Memorial Exercises in which there was an
excellent program of music and recitations by stu-
dents of the College and an address concerning the
late Dr. Charles D. Mclver, by Mr. Josephus Daniels,
editor of the News and Observer. Most appropriate
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Mclver were held at Peace, as he was a professor there
in his early career as an educator.

In referring to Dr. Mclver 's work Mr. Daniels
made prominent that which went to make woman
see her duty as a citizen, this being one of the life-
teachings of Dr. Mclver, who lent all his energies to
the best education of the women of North Carolina.

DUPLIN COUNTY NORMAL COLLEGE ALUMNiE

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Duplin Journal

Seldom has it been the privilege of Warsaw to
entertain a more attractive body of young women than
gathered there on Monday, December 3rd, to honor
with their presence and tributes the memorial service
of their friend and leader, Dr. Charles D. Mclver.

The meeting was held at the Carlton Hotel. In addi-
tion to the alumnae and former students many ladies
of the town were present.

Miss Margaret Peirce, one of the most loyal daugh-
ters of the Normal College, presided.

The program was as follows :

''Character Sketch of Dr. Mclver," by Miss Mary
Faison DeVane.

Miss Kate Bar den, of Kenans ville, then spoke on
"Duplin County's Debt to Dr. Mclver and How
Best to Repay It."

A poem by Miss Helen Hicks brought out the
thought that Dr. Mclver 's life was most happy, for
he had lived gloriously.

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Miss Elizabeth Hicks then spoke of Dr. Mclver 's
classroom influence and of his ability to inspire self-
improvement in others.

Miss Maria Loftin, as a representative of the first
year's students, spoke of "Conditions at the Normal
College in 1892". She described the wonderful devel-
opment of the Institution under the wise guidance of
Dr. Mclver.

UNIVERSITY ALUMNI, WAKE COUNTY ASSOCIATION

Raleigh News and Observer

The third annual banquet of the University Alumni
was held from eight until half after ten o'clock last
evening (Oct. 14, 1906), and was thoroughly enjoyed
by some forty of the more than one hundred Wake
County alumni.

A letter was read from Dr. G. T. Winston, former
president of the University, who was called away
from town, in which he proposed the following toast :

' ' To the memory of Charles Duncan Mclver, a pro-
duct of the new University, a worker whose public
services to North Carolina have repaid all the money
invested by the State in his alma mater."

To this toast County Superintendent Judd was
called to respond, and spoke eloquently of the life
and work of Dr. Charles D. Mclver and of his service
to popular education.

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UNIVEESITY ALUMNI, GUILFORD COUNTY ASSOCIA-
TION McIVER LOAN FUND

Greensboro Patriot

University Day was elaborately celebrated in this
city (Greensboro) by the University Alumni Associa-
tion of Guilford County. * * * *

Dr. J. E. Brooks announced that the association had
decided to depart from its usual custom of giving a
scholarship to some deserving young man and instead
to establish a ' ' Mclver Loan Fund, ' ' for general use
in helping needy boys entering the University, regard-
less of what part of the State they were from. A
substantial sum was subscribed. * * * *

SALISBURY GRADED SCHOOL
Special to Daily Industrial News

The teachers of the graded school yesterday morn-
ing sent a telegram of condolence to the family of Dr.
Charles D. Mclver, a man under whom a majority
of them took tutelage and by whom he was univer-
sally loved. Salisbury has a greater percentage of
Normal College graduates teaching in the schools here
than any town in the State.

The teachers of the school met and decided to
establish a scholarship in his honor, which they will
call the Rowan Teachers ' Scholarship, supported solely
by the teachers from this county who were State
Normal College students.

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TEANSYLVANIA COUNTY TEACHEES

From Sylvan Valley News

An entertainment will be held in the court house
Friday evening, January 18th, in memory of Dr.
Charles D. Mclver, the deceased president of the
State Normal and Industrial College at Greensboro.
All the citizens of the county, far and near, are urged
to be present and do homage to the memory of one
of North Carolina's greatest sons, the grand and
noble educator who said, "No State which will once
educate its mothers need have any fear about
illiteracy. ' '

The proceeds of the entertainment are to assist in
the establishment of a Mclver Loan Fund which the
students of the State Normal College are attempting
to raise. This Loan Fund is for the benefit of worthy
young women who are financially unable to secure
an education without some assistance. To extend a
helping hand to helpless women and children was one
of the strongest impulses of this great benefactor's
life, and we consider that no more fitting monument
than this Loan Fund could be erected to his memory.
Let all come out to learn of him and aid in establish-
ing this monument.

GEAHAM GEADED SCHOOL
Alamance Gleaner

Yesterday at 11 :00 o 'clock while the funeral of Dr.
Charles D. Mclver was being conducted in Greens-

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boro the entire graded school here assembled in the
chapel and held a beautiful and impressive memorial
service. In the beginning of the service Prof. Robert-
son told briefly of Dr. Mclver 's life as an educator and
of how closely he had been associated with our
own school; how he had been instrumental in its
establishment ; and that our first and former superin-
tendent was his own brother, and that four of our
teachers were his students; and hence how eminently
fitting it was for the school to come together in memo-
rial service.

WAKE COUNTY TEACHEKS' ASSOCIATION

Raleigh News and Observer

A memorial service in honor of the late Dr. Charles
D. Mclver was held here tonight, Nov. 30th, by the
Wake County Teachers' Association, the principal
features being an address on ''Charles D. Mclver as
a Citizen of North Carolina," by Josephus Daniels,
editor of the News and Observer, and an address,
"Appreciation for Dr. Mclver," by J. Y. Joyner,
State Superintendent of Public Instruction.

The influence of Dr. Mclver on the education of
women was discussed by three young women, Miss
Mary Arrington, from the viewpoint of a college stu-
dent, Miss Ada V. Womble, as a teacher, and Miss
Edith Royster from the viewpoint of "a citizen-
woman. ' '

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RESOLUTIONS

BOAED OF DIRECTORS OF THE STATE NORMAL

COLLEGE

Resolved, by the Board of Directors of the North
Carolina State Normal and Industrial College:

First: That we deeply deplore the death of Dr.
Charles D. Mclver, President of this Institution. He
was the originator of the idea of the State Normal
and Industrial College; the founder of the Institu-
tion; its faithful friend in adversity and prosperity;
and in his death the Institution has suffered an
irreparable loss, the State and the nation one of their
foremost educators, and popular education a vigorous
defender and advocate.

Second : Dr. Mclver had mental capacity to devise,
heart and enthusiasm to inspire, energy to execute.
He had but one purpose, one desire, one ambition in
life, — to serve and elevate mankind.

Third : He was a man of broad and patriotic senti-
ments and sympathies. He loved his State with a deep
devotion, and believed that all the interests of the
State could be best served and advanced and popular
education could be best fostered by training and
elevating for service in the home, the church, and the
schools, the young womanhood of the State. For
this idea and to advance this purpose he gave his
efforts, his energies and his life.

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Fourth : The State Normal and Industrial College,
with its magnificent buildings and equipment, is a
visible monument to his memory; but in the hearts
of the people of North Carolina there is a monument
to his life and service more lasting than stone, bronze
or marble.

Fifth : Resolved, That the chairman of this Board
appoint a committee of three to act with the Dean
of the Faculty in arranging for a public memorial ser-
vice to be held at the College on Thursday, October
11th, 1906, and to present at that time a suitable
memorial commemorative of the life and service of
the distinguished dead.

Sixth: Resolved, That the Board officially and
personally join with the widow and family of the
deceased in mourning the loss that we have in common
sustained, and that we tender to them assurance of
our deepest and tenderest sympathy.

B. F. Aycock, Wayne County.
T. B. Bailey, Davie County.

A. J. Conner, Northampton County.

S. M. Gattis, Orange County.

R. T. Gray, Wake County.

J. Y. Joyner, Guilford County.

C. H. Mebane, Catawba County.
J. D. Murphy, Buncombe County.
J. L. Nelson, Caldwell County.

J. F. Post, Jr., New Hanover County.
T. S. McMullan, Perquimans County.

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FACULTY OF THE STATE NOEMAL COLLEGE

We, the Faculty of the State Normal and Industrial
College, wish to record our grateful appreciation of
the remarkably successful and singularly useful life
of our honored President, helpful co-worker, and
esteemed friend, Charles Duncan Mclver.

While our hearts are deeply saddened by the loss
of his genial presence, his magnetic personality, and
his friendly sympathy, we feel that his spirit is still
with us. The sunshine of his abiding optimism, and
the radiance of his cheerful hopefulness, will continue
to brighten for us the path of duty.

Dr. Mclver 's was a soul too generous to entertain
jealousy, too noble for pride. Neither wealth nor
public honors could tempt him from his unselfish
devotion to what he regarded as the State's greatest
need. His was the truly great character that stands
the crucial test of service to humanity.

For him no undertaking was too difficult if its
accomplishment meant a larger life for his people;
no burden too heavy for him to bear if thereby it
was made lighter for the shoulders of another. His
example can but inspire us with courage to continue
the work which he had so wisely planned and so suc-
cessfully begun at this College.

We count it a privilege to have been guided by his
masterly hand, inspired by his magnanimous spirit,
and aided by his sympathetic co-operation. We, who
remember his sweet spirit of charity, delight in bear-
ing testimony to the fact that his life was a beautiful

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demonstration of that sublime truth which he so often

read in our presence: "Now abideth faith, hope,

and charity, these three, but the greatest of these is

charity. ' '

Viola Boddie,

Gertrude W. Mendenhall,

S. M. KlRKLAND,

Melville V. Fort,
E. J. Forney.

ADELPHIAN LITEEAKY SOCIETY OF STATE NOEMAL

COLLEGE

We feel that in the death of our President, Dr.
Charles D. Mclver, the Adelphian Literary Society
has lost its most valuable guide and counsellor. To
many of us he was not only our College President,
but a close personal friend, and those of us who have
been here with him esteem it a privilege to have
had our lives touch his, to have been quickened by his
live spirit, to have had put into us some of his
enthusiasm and hope for the future, and to have
known something of his clear insight and foresight,
and ability to plan large things for us and for the
College which he loved more than life.

His plans were not laid for time as we measure it,
but the endless years stretched out before his vision,
and he showed his wisdom when he invested his time
and strength in this great work to which he gave
his life.

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Let us hope that his purpose may be recognized
and fulfilled by all who enter this College, and that
we may all be inspired and controlled by "the power
of an endless life."

"He was made not after the law of a carnal com-
mandment, but after the power of an endless life. '

These to our President, since we hold him dear,

Through all these years we have learned to love him well.

And now that he is gone we love him more;
And so it must be ever to the end.

The problems great and small alike were his,
And in the solving he but grew more strong,

Whose breadth of vision seemed to come with age,
And strength of purpose with the added years.

For life like this and service such as his,
Our thanks we render to the God who gave,

And pray while time is given us here to serve,
We too may follow where he saw the light.

Miss Mendenhall,
Flora Thornton,
Mary Exum,

Committee.

CORNELIAN LITERARY SOCIETY OF STATE
NORMAL COLLEGE

The Cornelian Literary Society wishes to bear testi-
mony to the useful life and wonderfully helpful exam-
ple of our beloved President, Charles Duncan Mclver.
His habitual cheerfulness, his unfailing courage, his

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devotion to duty, and his boundless faith in humanity
will ever be an inspiration to us.

We gratefully attribute to him the opportunities
now afforded the women of our State for obtaining a
broad and practical education. It was through his
efforts that the women of North Carolina were brought
to a realization of their responsibilities as citizens;
but he emphasized no less the importance of educating
a woman for her home. Those who knew him well
are familiar with his saying: "Educate a man and
you educate an individual ; educate a woman and you
educate a home. ' '

His trust in the students and his appeal to their
honor and loyalty ever aroused a public sentiment
that resulted in faithful work and right conduct. He
constantly held before us the noblest ideal of democ-
racy— an ideal which recognizes true worth and honest
service regardless of class distinctions.

To form a correct estimate of his worth, his life
should be measured not by years but by deeds :

"For the shortest life is longest, if 'tis best;
'Tis ours to work, to God belongs the rest.
Our lives are measured by the deeds we do,
The thoughts we think, the objects we pursue.
Though all too short his course and quickly run,
'Twas full and glorious as the orbed sun."

Mena Davis,
Mabel Howell,
Mary Mitchell,

Committee.

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YOUNG WOMAN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF
STATE NORMAL COLLEGE

In the death of our beloved President, the Young
Woman's Christian Association has lost a true and
sympathetic friend. We feel keenly the lack of his
ready aid in every good work, of his unselfish, Christ-
like spirit. His life was an expression of Christian
love and service, and the high ideals which he set
before us will long live in the memory of a grateful
people. We would not repine; we believe that the
great All-Father is too good to be unkind, too wise
to make a mistake. ' ' He was not, for God took him. ' '

Christina Snyder,
Rena Lassiter,
Vaughn White,

Committee.

SENIOR CLASS OF STATE NORMAL COLLEGE

To each member of the Senior Class of the State Nor-
mal and Industrial College the death of our President
is a personal sorrow. For three years we were
guided by his counsel and inspired by his high ideals
till his influence upon us has crystallized into a
steady purpose.

If, as a class or as individuals we have gained
in strength since our entrance here, we attribute it,
in great measure, to his inspiration. Never too tired
to help with advice ; never too pre-occupied to sympa-
thize with each girl's aspirations, his approbation

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was a thing to be sought and his kindly criticism a

thing to be appreciated.

Since his life was one of service, its purpose may be

expressed in the following prayer: "Grant, Lord,

that I some service to mankind may render in my

little space of years. Naught else I ask but that

when life is done, some one may say : ' He was God 's

tool.'"

Mat Lovelace,

Eleanore Elliott,

Vaughn White,

Committee.

JUNIOE CLASS OF STATE NOEMAL COLLEGE

As members of the Junior Class we wish to express
our love and esteem for our late President, Dr. Charles
Duncan Mclver. During the two years of our college
life his noble example has been a constant inspiration.
He has impressed upon us the necessity of having
a high purpose in life, and has ever helped and
cheered us by his encouraging words. We will go
forth to our work stronger for having known him.
The memory of his cheerful, hopeful spirit and
untiring energy will go with us throughout our lives.
We see him no more, but his works live after him.

Rena G. Lassiter,
Selma C. Webb,
Martha Petty,

Committee.

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SOPHOMORE CLASS OF STATE NORMAL COLLEGE

We, the members of the Class of 1909, desire to
express our love and esteem for the late President of
our College, Dr. Mclver. Our class fully appreciates
the privilege of knowing so noble a character.
Although we knew him but a short time, we deeply
deplore the loss of one who so unselfishly gave his
life for the benefit of others. He was an inspiration
to us in the beginning of our college life; his mem-
ory encourages us to do our part of the great work

that he loved. ._ x

Florence Landis,

Eunice Roberts,

Maud Rogers,

Committee.

HENDERSON GRADED SCHOOLS AND CITIZENS

Press Correspondence

Henderson, N. C, Sept. 20. — At a meeting of citi-
zens, graded school teachers and former pupils of the
State Normal College the following resolutions were
adopted :

1 ' The entire State of North Carolina mourns today.
She has lost her first citizen and her most useful one.
From mountain to coastline there is sorrow at the
passing of Charles Duncan Mclver, for his influence
was felt and his benefaction extended throughout
the length of the State. The teachers of the Henderson
Graded Schools desire to express their feeling of obli-
gation to Dr. Mclver and their deep sense of personal

loss in his death.

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In him all good qualities seemed united —
'To give the world assurance of a man.'

* ' As an educator who was doing more for the youth
of the commonwealth than any other, a public-spirited
citizen deeply interested in all that touched his State,
and a Christian gentleman of unquestioned loyalty
to all truth and duty, his death means an irreparable
loss to North Carolina. We do not know how we shall
get along without him.

"Another may assume his duties, but no man can
take the place of Charles Duncan Mclver with a host
of friends who loved and admired the man, or with the
great throng of young men and women of North
Carolina who have been stirred by his example and
teaching to a deeper intellectual activity, and have
learned at his feet the beauty and power of the
life of service. 'Know ye not that a prince and a
great man hath fallen in Israel today ? '

> )

FORMER STUDENTS OF HICKORY

When the news of the death of Dr. Charles D.
Mclver reached Hickory it caused great sorrow among
the residents of this place who remembered him as
having helped to organize the graded school here.
But the sorrow was greatest in the hearts of those
who have been students of the State Normal College,
who knew him as a great educator and Christian
man, who learned to love him as a personal friend.
We wish to place on record our appreciation of this
man who devoted his life to the upbuilding of the

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womanhood of the State. While others admire him
as a public man, we wish to pay tribute to those
traits of character that won the love of every girl
who knew him not only as President of the College,
but as a friend when a friend was most needed. In
our pain over the loss of our friend we would not forget
his loved ones who no longer see him in his place in
the home.

He has passed over the river to rest, but in our hearts
he will always be loved and remembered.

Roche Michaux, Mrs. E. B. Cline,

Mamie Dixon, Katherine C. Baker,

Rosa Lee Dixon, Lee Lentz,

Louise Dixon, Carrie Powell,

Kate Finley, Estelle Davis,

Josie Doub, Marie Brooks.

STATE PEIMAEY TEACHEES' ASSOCIATION

*

As ours is the first formal assembly of North Caro-
lina teachers since the event of the death of our teacher
leader, Dr. Charles D. Mclver, we desire to pay our
tribute of love and respect to his memory, and to put
ourselves on record as deeply appreciative of his ever-
abiding interest in, and loyal support of, every move-
ment that pertained to the uplift and forward prog-
ress of education. He knew no primary, interme-
diate, or secondary in his thought of education, but,
viewing it from the hilltop, education in its fullest
sense was, as it were, his "ruling passion." His

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life work was to further educational activity along
all lines. Truly, he was an ' ' educational statesman, ' '
as Dr. Lyman Abbott so aptly styled him.

His was to project great schemes, to dare great
deeds ; and his the joy to perfect many of his schemes
and to perform many of the great deeds which his
big brain conceived. "By their fruits ye shall know
them. ' '

We, as teachers, honor him first of all for that he
was a true teacher. He knew and battled with the
same difficulties that confront us every day. But
more than that, we honor him for the great work of
emancipation which he wrought for us, as teachers,
in the realization of his dream of providing better
opportunities for our training for more effective ser-
vice. To his "genius of inspiration" is due in large
measure the wonderful, quickening uplift and out-
look along all lines of educational thought and awaken-
ing in the "Old North State."

We shall miss his genial spirit of buoyancy and
optimism. But, as teachers, we might well pray the
prayer of Elisha, "Let, I pray thee, a double portion
of thy spirit be upon me." Truly we shall not "look
upon his like again."

"His life was gentle, and the elements
So mixed in him that Nature might stand up
And say to all the world, ' This was a man. ' "

Nettie M. Allen,

Iola V. Exum,

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DIALECTIC SOCIETY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH

CAROLINA

The Dialectic Society of the University of North
Carolina adopted resolutions of respect to the late
Dr. Charles D. Mclver as follows :

"Whereas, God in his infinite wisdom has seen fit
to call from earth Dr. Charles D. Mclver, who was a
loyal and useful son of the University and a faithful
member of the Dialectic Society, therefore,

"Resolved, first, That in the death of Dr. Mclver
the University has lost a most able alumnus whose
untiring energy has wrought a lasting influence for
the State, and that the Dialectic Literary Society has
lost a member who was a warm-hearted friend and a
man of wisdom and power.

"Resolved, second, That we hereby extend the
bereaved family our deepest sympathy, and that a
copy of these resolutions be published in The Tar Heel
and in the daily papers of Greensboro. ' '

T. D. Sharp,
P. M. Williams,
C. C. Barnheart,

Committee.

GREENSBORO CHAMBER OF COMMERCE

The Chamber of Commerce of the city of Greens-
boro, at the first meeting of the executive committee
since the great calamity of Dr. Charles D. Mclver 's
death, which befell the State, the cause of education,

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the city of Greensboro, the various organizations with
which he was connected, and his personal friends,
desiring to give formal expression of the members of
the Chamber of Commerce, of their sense of loss and
bereavement in his death, adopt the following resolu-
tions :

First, that Dr. Charles D. Mclver was one of the
foremost citizens of our city, and none surpassed him
in loyalty to her interests, in persistent, enthusiastic,
and intelligent service for her educational, religious
and industrial progress.

Second, that each member of the Chamber of Com-
merce appreciated his willingness at all times to attend
the meetings of members of the Chamber of Commerce
and Board of Directors, and his ability in devising
means whereby the usefulness of the Chamber of Com-
merce could be increased, and his unselfish sacrifices in
aiding in the execution of all means looking to this end.

Third, that we should, as a tribute to his memory,
with renewed energy, carry on the work that he was
doing as a member of the Chamber of Commerce.

Fourth, that a copy of these resolutions be spread
upon the minutes of the Chamber of Commerce, and
that a copy be sent to Mrs. Mclver.

MASONIC LODGE, WINSTON

At a regular communication of Winston Lodge No.

167, A. F. and A. M., held Monday, October 8th, 1906,

the following resolutions of respect were unanimously

adopted :

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"Whereas, It has pleased the great Ruler of the uni-
verse in His wisdom to take from our midst our
esteemed and valued brother, Dr Charles D. Mdver,
and to mercifully transfer him, as we reverently
believe, to the Grand Lodge above, therefore, be it
resolved,

"That this, Winston Lodge of Ancient, Free and
Accepted Masons, deeply deplores the sad loss of a most
zealous, worthy, faithful and useful brother, devoted
to the interests of humanity, the upbuilding of society
and the development of the best and highest citizen-
ship:

"That the State of North Carolina has lost a
great educational leader, a noble citizen, and a devoted
patriot :

"That our tenderest sympathy and warmest
regard be extended to the honored wife and children
of our departed brother, with the assurance that we
shall ever take the deepest interest in their future
welfare and in their success :

"That a copy of these resolutions be forwarded
to the family of the deceased, and that they be
inscribed upon a page of our minutes dedicated to his
memory. ' '

J. K. NORFLEET,

Wm. A. Blair,
Leon Cash,

Committee.

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AGRICULTURAL AND MECHANICAL COLLEGE FOR

THE COLORED RACE

Be it resolved, by the teachers and students of the
A & M. College for the Colored Race, that we take
this opportunity of expressing our feelings of deep
regret at the untimely death of Dr. Charles D. Mclver :
First, because he was a champion of universal
education and the foremost man in the State to teach
and disseminate its principles.

Second, we deplore his sudden departure because
we believe he was a man of broad, patriotic and
sympathetic impulse, and though it was but natural
for him to be first interested in the educational uplift
of his own people, yet we learn from those who
were in close contact with him that he earnestly and
unselfishly, in public and in private, by voice and
pen, rendered valuable aid "m stemming the tide of
opposition to the education of our race.

For the service we are grateful, and at the same time
we extend our sincere sympathy to those who were
near and dear to him in life and now so deeply
mourn him in death.

Chas. H. Moore,
J. H. Bluford,
Chas. W. Pieece,
J. C. Truman,
J. H. Smith,
B. W. Barnes,
J. T. Merrick.

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ADOPTED BY THE CONFERENCE FOR EDUCATION
IN THE SOUTH, PINEHURST, N. C.

A native of the South, endowed with the virtues
of a Scotch ancestry, schooled by the adversity that
follows war, he early developed those traits of charac-
ter which made him a leader of men. He loved his
friends, and they in turn were devoted to him. His
innate sense of justice, quickened by instinctive sym-
pathy, impelled him to champion the cause of the
oppressed and unfortunate. To him ignorance was
slavery, and to the call of children for freedom through
education he responded by unreservedly offering the
full measure of his manhood. His first vote was cast
for local tax for public schools, and his life long he
adhered to the doctrine that liberal taxation, fairly
levied and properly applied, is the chief mark of a
civilized people. He knew well the power of personal
influence and understood as few do the full signifi-
cance of the office of teacher. Chivalrous in his
respect for womanhood, convinced that ''No State
which will once educate its mothers need have any
fear about future illiteracy," his first great public
service was the creation of a college for the training
of teachers and the higher education of women, an
enduring monument, erected at public expense and
consecrated by his devotion to the public service of
his native State. So efficient was his work in North
Carolina that other States eagerly sought his assist-
ance. And every appeal for help, whether from his

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own beloved South, or from the North or from the
West, was answered to the limit of his strength. He
had the genius of friendliness that made him at home
with those of every class and in every section. Wher-
ever he went his enthusiasm was contagious, and the
good he did no man can estimate. What his leader-
ship has meant to this Conference we are beginning
to know and appreciate. He brought to us the sun-
shine of his hope; he stimulated us with abundant
good cheer ; he guided us with infinite common sense ;
he inspired us with patriotic fervor; he enlisted us
permanently in the cause to which he gave his life;
and he made of every one of us a friend who loved
him — and we love him still.

This tribute we pay to his memory, and in bringing
it we acknowledge publicly the debt we owe to a life
that has been to us all a blessed benediction.

COMMITTEE ON PASTOEATE OF THE FIRST PRESBY-
TERIAN CHURCH, GREENSBORO

Charles Duncan Mclver on the 17th day of Septem-
ber, 1906, received his last summons and entered into
his eternal rest. His call came to him without notice,
with no warning, and we must believe that when the
swift hand of death was laid upon him he shrank
not from the touch, but met it with the courage of a
fearless man, for he was brave. He had lived a brave,
fearless life. All his life long he had been meeting
duty and difficulty with the courage of a true man,

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and hence we know that death had no terrors for him.

He brought to the discharge of the difficult and
delicate duty that has been imposed upon the- Pastorate
Committee of the First Presbyterian Church of
Greensboro, N. C, the same earnestness and enthusi-
asm and optimism and discrimination which he
brought to all the larger tasks which he ever under-
took. His service as a member of this committee
showed that there was no interest nearer and dearer
to him than his church, and that he regarded the
church with the same broad sweep of vision as those
other prominent factors of the life of the world as he
saw it which stood out within the range of his heroism.
He looked for a preacher who would be the leader
in the life and thought and work of the community,
and he cherished the same broad and high ideal for
his church. He had dedicated his life to the great
cause of education; he was foremost in every move-
ment for the advancement of the best interests of
the community ; but underlying all his great hopes for
the world and mankind was his fundamental faith
in the church of the Living God as the basis of all
thought and life and progress in the world. This
we believe was his large view of the church which he
loved so well and tried to serve faithfully.

We, the members of the Pastorate Committee, will
miss his genial converse, his hopefulness, his help-
fulness, his friendship. His place among us cannot
be supplied. There is not another like him. As we
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endeavor to carry it out in that hopeful spirit and
in that large view of it which our dead friend and
co-worker gave to it.

It is our wish that this memorial of appreciation
and affection be spread upon the record of the minutes
of this committee and that a copy be transmitted to
Mrs. Mclver in testimony of our cordial sympathy.

G. W. Denny, A. M. Scales,

J. M. Hendrix, Z. V. Taylor,

J. W. Fry, A. W. McAlister.
W. E. Allen,

GUILFORD CHAPTER DAUGHTERS OF THE

CONFEDERACY

Whereas, In the providence of God we have been
called to mourn the sudden death of the honored
President of the State Normal and Industrial College,
Dr. Charles D. Mclver, we would place on record
our appreciation of his labors for education and for
the uplifting of the women of North Carolina. Those
who knew him best loved him most. A man of strong
convictions and tender impulses, he did not hesitate
to jeopardize his own interests for what he felt was
right and ought to be said and done. To have
known him was to receive an inspiration to a nobler
life. Faithful in every duty, his memory will remain
a precious heritage.

While we are bowed with grief over his sudden
passing away, in all the strength of his manhood,

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we sorrow not as those who have no hope. He has
heard the call, "Well done, good and faithful ser-
vant, enter thou into the joy of the Lord." To the
bereaved family we extend our sincere sympathy.

Resolved, That these resolutions be incorporated
in our minutes, a copy be sent the family and pub-
lished in our daily papers.

Miss Meta E. Beall, Mrs. A. J. Fariss,

Mrs. J. N. Staples, Mrs. J. G. Brodnax, Sr.,

Mrs. E. F. Dalton, Miss C. J. Gorrell.

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF NORTH CAROLINA
LIBRARY ASSOCIATION

The Executive Committee of the North Carolina
Library Association held a meeting in the Greensboro
Public Library November 19th. It was their desire,
in memory of Dr. Charles D. Mclver, late vice-presi-
dent of the Association, to express their appreciation
of his enthusiastic support of their work and his
recognition of its educational value in the upbuilding
of the State. His service, as vice-president, was of
great value to the Association, and in recognition
thereof the Executive Committee has spread upon its
minutes an expression of their appreciation of his
hearty co-operation in all their efforts.

J. Frank Wilkes, Secretary.

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GREENSBORO PUBLIC LIBRARY

Whereas, The late Dr. Charles D. Mclver was one
of the chief factors in the establishment of the Free
Circulating Library of Greensboro and gave it his
warmest sympathy and strongest support through
all its eventful past, therefore,

Resolved, That in the death of Dr. Mclver the
Library has sustained an irreparable loss and the
members of the Board are bereft of a personal friend
and a wise and faithful counsellor;

Resolved, That we hereby extend to the bereaved
family our deepest sympathy, and that a copy of these
resolutions be sent to Mrs. Mclver and to the daily
papers of the city.

L. W. Crawford, Chairman,
G. A. Grimsley.

DAUGHTERS OF AMERICAN REVOLUTION, WAYNES-

VILLE CHAPTER

Having heard with deepest sorrow of the death
of Dr. Charles D. Mclver, President of the State
Normal and Industrial College, we, the members of
the Dorcas Bell Love Chapter, Daughters of the
American Revolution, desiring to attest the admira-
tion and loving esteem in which we hold his memory,
offer the following tribute of respect:

We feel that in the death of Dr. Mclver education,
which is one of the chief aims of our society, has
suffered an irreparable loss, our State has lost one

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of her most distinguished sons, and our Chapter a
friend. With all the women of the State, we shall
cherish his memory as one who has done more for
our advancement and enlightenment than any other,
and although we mourn his sudden call into the Great
Beyond, his name will live and his unselfish and
beautiful -character will prove an inspiration to
generations yet unborn.

We extend our deep and heartfelt sympathy to the
bereaved family, realizing keenly their great loss, and
we commend them to our Heavenly Father who is
too wise to err and too merciful to be unkind.

Ruth Bennetts Baker,

Mary Love Stringfield Wulborn,

Annie Gudger Quinlan.

BUNCOMBE COUNTY ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION

The mortal life of our beloved President, Dr. Charles
Duncan Mclver, is ended. We, the Buncombe County
daughters of the State Normal and Industrial College,
wish to express to the bereaved family, the faculty,
and the student body our deepest sympathy. In
his death we each have lost a personal friend and
benefactor, but his enthusiasm and high ideals of life
will ever remain a fragrant memory and inspiration
to us.

Therefore, be it resolved :

That we bow in submission to the will of Him
who doeth all things well ;

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That in the death of Dr. Mclver the South
has lost one of her noblest and most useful men and
the womanhood of North Carolina her Chief in the
cause of education ;

That a copy of these resolutions be sent to the
family, the faculty, and that a copy be spread upon
the minutes of our Buncombe County Association
of Normal Students.

Birdie Bell Reynolds,
Sarah Frances Suttle,
Elizabeth Frances Bernard,
Anna Folsom Fisher.

THE WOMAN'S CLUB OF GOLDSBOEO

Whereas, The work of the late Dr. Charles D.
Mclver, President of the State Normal and Industrial
College, was for the purpose of affording greater
opportunities for the education of the women of
North Carolina; and, recognizing the great service he
has rendered the women of the State by his untiring
efforts in educating the citizenship of North Carolina
to the belief that the elevation of womanhood means
the elevation of the race; and,

Whereas, It was his life work to establish an insti-
tution which young women of small means might
attend and from which they might derive equal ben-
efit with those of larger means ; and,

Whereas, The citizens of North Carolina have
expressed a very fitting desire to erect a bronze

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statue to his memory — a tribute that should receive
all encouragement possible from every citizen of
North Carolina; and,

Whereas, The womanhood of North Carolina, for
whom he labored so unceasingly, desire to carry out
his purpose to offer better opportunity of education
to those in moderate circumstances ;

Be it resolved, That the women of North Carolina
recommend, as their special tribute to his memory,
the establishment of a loan fund of sufficient amount
to be of service to a large number of deserving young
women who would be unable to attend this institu-
tion without the aid of such a fund.

JUNIOR ORDEE GREENSBORO COUNCIL

Another one of our brothers, Dr. Charles D.
Mclver, having filled out the measure of his days,
has suddenly fallen and been taken in the wisdom of
our Father in heaven to that better country, of which
we know by revelation and faith.

We desire to place on record and give our expres-
sion to the feelings that fill our minds and hearts;
therefore, be it resolved :

That in the death of Brother C. D. Mclver, Greens-
boro and the State loses one of its most useful citizens ;
that to Greensboro Council No. 13, Jr. O. U. A. M.,
especially does his sudden and unexpected death come
as a great and painful loss; alert and active in the

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educational cause, guarding well and faithfully every
principle of the order, showing himself as cast in that
heroic mould which enabled him to obey that injunc-
tion of the great apostle, Look not every man on his
own things, but every man also on the things of others ;

That, as an educator, brother, husband and
father, he was faithful and true; that in the good
name he achieved and builded he has bequeathed to
his family and country and friends a legacy more
precious than gold, and erected a monument more
lasting than brass ;

That we tender to his family our deepest sym-
pathy, and assure them that we weep with them,
share their woe, and would place our shoulder under
their great burden;

That a copy of these resolutions be forwarded
to the family, and that they be spread on the minutes.

W. F. Clarida,
A. A. Chandler,
J. F. Aiken.

WILSON COUNTY ALUMNA

"Whereas, Dr. Charles Duncan Mclver has been an
invaluable friend to the young women of North Caro-
lina and ever exerted his splendid influence in their
behalf ;

Whereas, He has been the founder and soul of the
State Normal and Industrial College of North Caro-

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Una, and through this Institution has uplifted woman-
kind in North Carolina ; resolved :

First, That the former students of the State
Normal and Industrial College from Wilson County-
desire to express their deep love for Dr. Mclver and
their undying appreciation of the ever kindly and
fatherly interest he evinced toward them ;

Second, That each former student from Wilson
County feels a keen sense of loss in his death ;

Third, That we desire to express our sincere sym-
pathy for his family in their loss;

Fourth, That a copy of these resolutions be sent
to Mrs. Mclver; also a copy to the State Normal
Magazine and the Wilson Times for publication.

Daphne K. Carraway,
Catherine E. Pace,
Rosa E. Wells,
Bertha R. Sugg,

Committee.

MAXTON GRADED SCHOOLS

Whereas, It has pleased an allwise God to release
from his earthly toils Dr. Charles Duncan Mclver,
who labored so faithfully in the educational work of
his State, the School Board of Maxton, in their regular
meeting, desire to place on record their appreciation
of his great service to humanity, in general, and to
this Board, in particular, in that he helped to organ-
ize the work of this school.

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Therefore, be it resolved :

That we commend to the young men of his
day and generation the life of this peerless educa-
tional statesman who accomplished so much by his
untiring effort and indomitable will in so short a
life;

That we heartily endorse any movement that may
be set on foot to preserve his memory ;

That a copy of these resolutions be sent to
the bereaved family of the deceased; that a copy be
spread on the permanent records of this Board; that
a copy be sent to the Board of the noble Institution
that he founded; that a copy be sent to the Scottish
Chief and to the State press.

R. M. Williams, Chairman,
J. B. Weatherly, Secretary.

MANNDALE INSTITUTE

Resolved, by the pupils of Manndale Institute:
That we hereby desire to give expression to the real
loss we feel in the death of Dr. Charles D. Mclver.
We regard him as the foremost educator of our State.
His broad culture, his love of his native State, his
never-tiring energy and his genuine warm heart, were
all used effectively in giving inspiration to public
school work, the higher education of women and a
general impetus to the uplift of mankind in our
State and Nation.

We shall miss him in his matchless personality, but

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his work will still live in the hearts and lives of
thousands of North Carolinians who have felt the
touch of his magnetic inspiration.

John S. Thomas, Belva Cheek,
E. D. Walters, Fannie Dark,

G. E. Moore, Sadie Harward.

Mcdowell county board of education

We realize that, in his life, Dr. Charles D. Mclver
demonstrated the value of his personal worth in
the administration of the greatest earthly affair. He
had become the State's idol and one of the Nation's
greatest men. North Carolina loved him as one of
her noblest sons; the South watched with pride the
great work he was doing, and the Nation beckoned
him on to yet greater things.

The most marked instance of his power and genuine
character, are in the immeasurably great results of
his life work. He it was who started the great
educational awakening in North Carolina that is felt
throughout the State today. He it was who, in Febru-
ary, 1902, was instrumental in calling together a num-
ber of the State's leading men and formally issued
a declaration against illiteracy and began the cam-
paign which has resulted in placing North Carolina
well in the front of Southern educational progress.
Truly a great man has gone from us, but he left us
a choice legacy in his Christian example, in his incor-
ruptible integrity, in his public deeds, and in his

private life.

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May the memory of him we mourn be an inspira-
tion to us and to others to press forward under new
leaders to new achievements and to a higher develop-
ment of the great work which he has begun.

Resolved, That a copy of this tribute be sent to
the stricken wife and family and to the State and
County papers for publication.

D. E. Hudgins,
J. L. Padgett,
W. E. Brown,
D. F. Giles.

TEYON SCHOOL
Press Correspondence

When the sad news of the death of Dr. Charles D.
Mclver, President of the State Normal and Industrial
College, reached the school, Superintendent Branon
called the students and teachers together, and after
reading an account of the sudden death of Dr. Mclver
and explaining his place in the educational progress of
North Carolina and the South, the following resolu-
tions were adopted:

Whereas, We as a school body, feel that in the death
of the late Dr. Charles D. Mclver, President of the
State Normal and Industrial College, we have lost
one of the strongest factors in the educational prog-
ress of the South ; and,

Whereas, He was a friend to the several institu-
tions of learning throughout the State, and especially
the public schools ; and,

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Whereas, He loved with a special interest the
boys and girls in the many schools ;

Therefore, be it resolved, That we, the students
and teachers of Tryon Graded School, deeply mourn
our great loss, and that of the State Normal and
Industrial College, and the entire South.

NORTH CAROLINA CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY

At a special meeting of the Board of Directors of
the North Carolina Children's Home Society the
following resolutions were unanimously adopted:

Whereas, It has pleased the Almighty Father to
call to Himself Dr. Charles Duncan Mclver, an
honored citizen, a Christian gentleman, and a much
beloved member of the Board of Directors of the
North Carolina Children's Home Society, be it

Resolved by said Board of Directors in special ses-
sion assembled :

First, That in the death of Dr. Mclver the cause
of needy childhood has suffered a distinct loss. His
charity was broad and extended to all worthy objects,
but his interest in the work of the Children's Home
Society was intense, the cause of homeless little ones
appealing to him especially; and be it

Resolved, second, That we shall sorely miss his
enthusiasm, his wise counsel, and his cheery presence
in our meetings ; and be it

Resolved, third, That our sympathy goes out to
the bereaved family, their loss being as a personal
one to each of us, also ; and be it

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Resolved, fourth, That these resolutions be made
a part of the permanent record of the Society; that
a copy of the same be forwarded to the family, and
that they be furnished the public press.

By order of the Board of Directors.

W. H. Osborn, President,
Wm. B. Streeter, Secretary.

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PERSONAL TRIBUTES

J. D. MURPHY, MEMBER OF BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Address Delivered at the Opening of the College, September 20, 1906

Ladies and Gentlemen, Faculty and Students of the

State Normal and Industrial College :

At this moment and in this presence every heart
is touched and saddened because we sit in the shadow
of a great grief and in the gloom of human sorrow.

Only a few hours since, the founder and father
of this great Institution stood among us, strong in
the strength of a vigorous manhood, bouyant and hope-
ful in the prospect of a long life of usefulness and
helpfulness. Today all that is mortal of your late
honored President lies in the bosom of Mother Earth
— dust to dust, ashes to ashes. Truly man's life is
a shadow and human existence mysterious to finite
minds.

At the request of the Board of Directors of this
Institution, I am here today to extend to the faculty
and student body the sympathy of the Board, officially
and personally, and to express to you our tenderest
sympathy for you in your sorrow and our high appre-
ciation of the worth and work of President Mclver.

For me this is a labor of love because I loved him
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formed there a friendship which time has only served
to cement, and onr subsequent association to
strengthen. Would that I had the gift of a Bossuet
to express to you in tender and eloquent eulogium
the sentiments which I today feel in my heart.

At an epochal moment in the history of the English
people, when there was taking place in the English
Parliament the great debate in which Edmund Burke
participated, involving the treatment and policy of
the English nation toward the American Colonies,
Mr. Burke arose from his seat and humbly and
reverently said, before entering upon that great debate,
1 ' Sursum corda — Let us lift up our hearts to Almighty
God and ask for guidance and wisdom. ' '

When the Constitutional Convention met at Phila-
delphia to carve the greatest piece of constitutional
statuary ever chiseled by the pen of man — the Consti-
tution of the United States — Benjamin Franklin
arose and told his comrades that in entering upon such
momentous and important duties they should seek
divine guidance and wisdom, saying in sub-
stance : ' ' Let us go down on our knees before God,
who giveth wisdom to all men liberally and upbraideth
not. ' '

In this epochal moment in the history of this Insti-
tution and of this State, let us be guided and governed
by the spirit of Burke and Franklin, inspired with
Christian hope and Christian faith, and, on our knees,
lift up our hearts and ask for divine guidance.

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In, perhaps, the greatest city on this earth there
is a great church — St. Paul's — first the dream and
then the realization of Sir Christopher Wrenn, the
great architect and builder of that beautiful temple.
On its walls there is a Latin inscription: "Si vis
monumentum, circum spice" — "If you wish a monu-
ment, look around." If you wish to see a monument
of Charles D. Mclver, look around on these magnifi-
cent buildings and these beautiful grounds. But he
has reared another monument — an invisible and
intangible monument, more lasting than pyramids and
more perennial than bronze statues — a monument
in the hearts and lives and souls of the people of a
great State.

This visible monument shall live and shall grow to
perpetuate his name and fame because its founda-
tions are built upon the hearts of the womanhood of
North Carolina.

Today, there is a word of sorrow on every lip and
a tear of grief in every eye. But in the presence of
this dispensation shall we be discouraged? The great
throbbing heart of North Carolina answers "no."
Upon the foundation which he builded so wisely and
so well, we will continue to work and labor until the
dreams and visions of that great soul become actuali-
ties in this great educational force of which he was
the founder.

On the tomb of John and Charles Wesley there is
an inscription: "God buries His workers, but con-
tinues His work." The work of the great lawgiver,

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Moses, was continued by his successor, Joshua. The
mantle of Elijah fell upon Elisha.

While we know that it will be difficult to find one
upon whom to cast the mantle of your late President,
I have a supreme and abiding faith that Jehovah will
point out the man, because I feel that the very hand
of God is in this great work, and that upon this Insti-
tution, with its noble ideals and lofty purposes and
Christian influences, He will vouchsafe His benign
benediction.

We deeply deplore the fact that Dr. Mclver was
taken in the very prime of life, in his forty-sixth year.
But "Man that spake as never man spake" — I speak
reverently — accomplished His mission in thirty- three
years. Was there ever such grief — was there ever such
apparent failure of a great purpose in life, as there
was to all outward appearances on Calvary's Hill
near Jerusalem, when all nature shuddered and
shrouded herself in darkness at the sight of an expir-
ing God? Today millions of men and women bow
down in reverence and love before the cross which
stood on that day for failure and despondency.

May I say right in this connection, young ladies,
that the thing which most distinguishes the Christian
nations and peoples from the other peoples of the
earth is their love and reverence for woman? Your
distinguished President devoted his energies, his
efforts, his life to this Christian ideal, and the heart
of every woman in North Carolina is today touched
with grief because, in yonder grave, lies their greatest

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defender, their life-long advocate, their helper and
friend. ' ' Greater love hath no man than this, that he
lay down his life for his friend." Truly, young
ladies, Charles D. Mclver has, indeed and in truth,
laid down his life for you and for your children and
for your children's children. At all times, under all
circumstances, in the State or out of the State, his
chief est and uppermost thought was, — What can I do
for popular education ? What can I do for the woman-
hood of North Carolina?

Let us be sorrowful, but let us be hopeful. The
holy influences in the hearts of the three thousand
young women who have gone out from this Institution
are seeds planted in fruitful gardens, which will
hereafter produce roses of hope, lilies of love and
flowers of patriotism. The hearts of three thousand
young women are bound to this Institution by golden
cords, and the hearts of nearly two millions of people
today, faculty and students, extend to you sympathy
in your work and bid you Godspeed in your efforts
to continue the work of this great Institution.

As Aaron and Hur held up the arms of Moses in
the presence of the Amalekites, so the Board asks you,
young ladies, to hold up the hands of your faculty
by an earnest devotion to duty, by hopeful helpfulness
and by indefatigable effort, to build here a great
institution of learning, a great fountain from which
will flow streams of living water to bless and brighten
the pathway of the people of our State.

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And in all your efforts may the richest joys of earth
and the choicest blessings of Heaven come to yon,
collectively and individually.

JOSEPHUS DANIELS

In Mclver Memorial Edition of the News and Observer

The people of North Carolina will preserve in a
bronze statue the form and lineaments of Charles
Duncan Mclver, and his figure will stand for all time
as the best type of the North Carolina educational
statesman and will serve to incite ambitious youth to
unselfish public service. The State Normal and Indus-
trial College, born in his brain years before legisla-
tive action gave him permission to build, will be
enlarged from year to year and live forever as the
chief institution for the education of women in the
South. * * It was born of the faith and

enthusiasm of Dr. Mclver and his noble wife, who saw
its present glory as clearly in their dreams twenty
years ago as the public now sees its imposing build-
ings and its large equipment and beautiful campus,
and feels its influence in every school district in the
Commonwealth. * * The State, through his
efforts and enthusiasm, voted a small sum to establish
the Institution after having, when first presented,
refused to vote the necessary small appropriation.
His faith was so contagious and Greensboro was so
dominated by it that its people voted a bond issue to
secure the location. The State and Greensboro there-
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enthusiasm compelled them — but it was his hand that
fashioned it into the Institution that in a few years
came to be the wonder and pride of all North Carolina.
How did he do it? The answer is that the vision he
had seen so controlled him that he poured his life-
blood into it, and fortunately for this and future
generations he had an endowment of warm, rich blood
that made him capable of achieving the largest results.
He was the rare combination of the dreamer and the
practical man of affairs. He saw the "heavenly
vision" of duty and opportunity that comes to every
great soul, ' ' and he was not disobedient to the heavenly
vision." All men of large capacity see the noble
structure they can rear to bless their fellows, but the
love of ease and the pursuit of wealth cause most of
them to turn aside and be disobedient to the high
call. They like their bread "well buttered," and the
"fine purpose" they once had dissolves in chasing the
things that perish.

Some one has said that "a man must consult his
wife to be rich." It were truer to say that if a man
wishes to serve humanity rather than to get rich he
must mate with a kindred soul. How many men have
sacrificed their worthy ambitions because they lacked
the inspiration to altruism around the hearthstone!
Fortunate was Charles Mclver that he found in his
wife an inspiration and a co-worker, and fortunate
was the State of North Carolina that the noble man
it mourns was cheered and supported in the great
work he accomplished by the brave woman who shared

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his ambition and his labors. Mclver felt this blessing
in his life and he held with Euskin that "no man
ever lived a right life who had not been chastened
by a woman's love, strengthened by her courage, and
guided by her devotion." When he began the agita-
tion for a better chance for women and better public
schools for all the children, going from county to
county in the Teachers ' Institutes, his good wife often
went with him and her enthusiasm touched the hearts
of the mothers of the country, and when these evan-
gels of a Better Chance left a county they had kindled
a flame that has burned since with a steadily increas-
ing light, and much of the educational renaissance
in many of our counties can be traced to those seem-
ingly small gatherings in the various county seats. I
shall never forget the spirit of this patriotic couple as
I saw it manifested in a little mountain town less than
a score of years ago. I had heard they were holding
a Teachers' Institute and had driven over just to
spend a day with these friends, for I was on a short
vacation. I walked into the dingy little court house,
where there were gathered perhaps three score
teachers, none of whom had ever seen inside of a high
school and none of whom had ever received more than
thirty or forty dollars a month for a four or five
months' session, but, poorly prepared as they were
and more wretchedly paid, they were the main hope of
uplift for children in that county. As I walked in
unobserved, Professor Mclver (not then "doctor")
was drilling the teachers on how to teach arithmetic.

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Nothing was ever so dry to me as mathematics or so
uninteresting, but he spoke with clearness, enthusiasm
and power, and invested the dry bones with life. It
was not that he was wishing so much to pour the
science of numbers into their heads, but that he was
trying to give them enthusiasm in the work of teaching
so that they would pour their lives into the lives of
the scholars, and awake in them a desire for learning
that would call forth the best that was in them. And
as he talked with as much earnestness and vim as if
the fate of the nation depended upon arousing those
country teachers to see the greatness of their work
and measure up to it, that dingy looking court house
seemed illumined and those careworn and hitherto
ambitionless faces shone with a new light. He had
burned into their hearts the ambition and glory that
animated his own soul, and the place had been trans-
formed into holy ground, and the little company that
entered the court house from a sense of duty went
forth with a new resolve in their hearts and with a
fresh baptism and new consecration to service. Since
then I have heard Mclver evoke the applause of legis-
latures that were carried by the resistless power of his
logic and high appeal; I have seen him in gatherings
where the titled and the world's great gave him
applause and primacy; I have seen him in almost
every high place where men were to be inspired to
public service and love of country — for he was a
man deeply concerned in whatever looked to the uplift
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when he poured out his soul in bringing out the latent
greatness of those mountain teachers who had before
them the task of making brick without straw. He
put himself in their places. He made them see that,
just as surely as the sculptor saw an angel in the
rock, he saw nobility and power in them, and sent
them home with a faith that they could lead the little
folks in humble homes into the highest places of use-
fulness. And they, and like men and women all over
the State, impelled by the high ambition implanted
in them by Mclver, have done more for the true prog-
ress of the State than all the captains of industry
within its borders, for under the spell of Mclver's
faith and enthusiasm they have kindled the ambition
of thousands of youths who have given a new impulse
to every department of industry and progress. And
the influences he brought into being will live and grow
with every passing year.

There are few men who saw Mclver's great influ-
ence in later years but who saw that the foundations
of his power had been laid deeply by the service he
rendered in those days of arduous labor, travelling
from county to county, leaving the pleasures of home
and access to books, literally being "in the saddle"
month after month, and receiving only enough com-
pensation to support his family. Every educator
would glory to have won Mclver's proud place. Few
would have paid the price. And Mclver was able
to win the first place, not because he felt he was
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entered upon the hard work with his whole heart and
found compensation in the touch of elbow to elbow
with the struggling men and women whom he was
able to help to a higher plane and to whom it was
given him to impart a clearer vision so that they
could walk with the immortals. Leadership that
endures only comes through loving service.

In 1886, Mr. Mclver came to Raleigh to teach in
Peace Institute — then as now, a leading college for
the education of women. I had only a few months
previously moved to Raleigh and was editing a weekly
newspaper. He had no duties at the Institute except
in the class-room and my work was not heavy, and
we both had time to dream dreams and to see much
of each other in the few years from 1886 until 1891
when he went to Greensboro as President of the State
Normal and Industrial College, particularly before he
entered upon the work, jointly with Dr. Edwin A.
Alderman, as conductor of Teachers' Institutes. The
walks and talks we had in those halcyon days when
we planned the great things we hoped to do and
rejoiced in youth and strength to overcome obstacles !
I count them as among the happiest of my life, for
it was then that our souls were knit together and there
came a comradeship and intimacy that had no inter-
ruption in the years that followed, though our work
denied the blessing of daily companionship and com-
munion. He was as much interested in my newspaper
dream that he helped me to realize as I was wrapped
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he lived to see become the crown of all colleges for
women in the South. His faith and his enthusiasm
were so great and his vision so clear that it was mag-
netic and irresistible.

His connection with a leading woman's college
served to cause him to study the problems of woman's
education. * * The conviction that the

State was unjust to its daughters grew upon him day
by day until the resolve to find or make a way for
them took possession of him. I have long believed
that no man does work that lives unless he hears
the call of God to that work and heeds the call. I
believe that Charles Mclver was called of God to the
work that made his life glorious, and enables him,
though dead, yet to speak, as surely as ever man was
called to minister at sacred altars. The desire to be
instrumental in the broader education of women
took possession of him and became the master passion
of his life. Nor was it because he merely wished to
see women educated for their own elevation, but
because he had the statesmanship to see that North
Carolina would never come into its own until a genera-
tion of educated mothers reared its sons and daugh-
ters. The need was summed up in this expression to
which he gave utterance in one form or another a thou-
sand times :

"When a man is educated it is simply one more taken
from the list of ignorance, but in the education of a woman
the whole family is taught, for she will pass on what she
has learned to her children. The education of one woman

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is far more important for the world's advancement than
that of one man."

We had become so accustomed to see the son favored
and so many people had denied the higher education
of woman, that twenty years ago that declaration
challenged attention and provoked discussion. There
were not wanting those who declared that the women
made better wives and mothers with the acquaintance
of a little music and drawing than with a broad
education, and there was strong and hostile opposition
to the proposition to establish the new Normal College
for women that Dr. Mclver championed, for that was
the day when serious and organized opposition to
what was erroneously called "State Aid" was at
high-water mark, and when many good men were in
antagonism to what has become the fixed policy of
the State — a policy, too, that now has no opposition
and that has demonstrated its wisdom. How much
Mclver did to check the growth of the hostility to
"State Aid" will never be known, but it was second
to that of no other man and was prompted by nothing
except the largest conception of the need of education.
* * The story of how the College has grown

from its ' ' hastily constructed, hideous brick building ' '
into an institution with property worth nearly half
a million dollars is the brightest chapter of North
Carolina's history of this decade. Every progressive
step was first born in Mclver 's brain. When he had
felt the pressing need of improvement, he set to work
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should be forthcoming. But no forward movement
was made that did not draw greater drafts upon his
energy and abundant vitality than upon the treasury
of the State and the purses of generous friends. The
Institution, under his leadership, has been established
on broad foundations, and this session opened the day
after his funeral with over six hundred students.
It will grow under the fostering care of the State and
the people, for he has given it such an impetus that
it will do the work for which it was established. And
it will be a perpetual monument to his broad states-
manship and patriotism.

But the establishment and enlargement of that
Institution, while a monument to his genius and faith,
was not the sole object of his educational zeal. The
neglect of the higher education of woman caused
him to throw his heart into the work of giving her a
chance, but he could not be content with building up
one mighty institution. His real purpose was to see
the blessings of an education brought within the reach
of every child in the State. And so he gave himself
freely to every movement for education, going into
the most remote district as well as into the biggest
city. He grew to be the acknowledged educational
leader of the State, and helped greatly to bring about
the present Era of Good Feeling in North Carolina
where the State, church, and private school teachers
have no rivalry except to do the most for the educa-
tion of all the children of the State. * * *

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The profession that he adopted made Dr. Mclver
an educational statesman, but he was more than that.
He was a patriot and a statesman in the broad sense.
There was nothing of the aloofness of the student in
him. He was a man and whatever concerned men
interested him. He clasped hands with men of all
callings who were working for the public welfare,
whether it related to voting a tax for schools, holding
fairs or reunions or civic celebrations, electing Gover-
nors or Presidents, or exhibiting North Carolina's
resources in a great exposition. He had civic virtue
highly developed, and nobody in North Carolina ever
sought his help in vain to advance any good cause,
and when he gave his hand to an undertaking he
went into it with all his heart and made himself felt.
He was the soul of the notable Reunion of North Caro-
linians at Greensboro which brought together hun-
dreds of native born North Carolinians living in other
States. Two years ago, when it looked like an appro-
priation for the Jamestown Exposition would fail, he
came to Raleigh and was its most zealous advocate.
It would be difficult to name any movement — educa-
tional, industrial, religious or political — that was mak-
ing for the betterment of the State that did not feel
the helpful touch of Charles D. Mclver. He was an
optimist of the best type, and went about making
others have faith in themselves and inspiring them
with patriotism and civic virtue and public spirit.
Other men will be found who will carry on the College
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of faith and hope and cheer will be missed in an
hundred ways, and it was the thing that made him
easily the most useful man in North Carolina and the
best loved private citizen. It is not so much whether
a man does this or that thing well that counts, but
whether his presence and his life inspire others to
follow his leadership of service to their fellows.

Dr. Mclver had the faculty of uniting men of
widely differing views and bringing them together to
serve the public interest. He was a Democrat of the
Bryan and Aycock type and yet his partisanship was
not of the sort that denied him warm friendship
among strong partisans of the other parties, and his
association with men of all creeds nearly always
resulted in making them better and more useful
citizens, ready to do some public service. He saw
the faculty for usefulness in promoting good schools,
good roads, or other progress in every man of force,
and he brought such men together for the betterment
of the community and the State. Not a few men
seemingly with nothing in common, were made friends
and co-workers by Mclver 's genius in making oil
and water mix.

In politics he was a Democrat and believed in its
fundamental principles. He believed in the people
and had the same views as to their capacity and educa-
tion that dominated Jefferson. He was concerned more
about the fundamentals than about the party divisions
upon fiscal policies, and he had more faith in the
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he could advance good government by mugwump vot-
ing. At the same time, as the head of a great public
institution, he never took such active part in political
warfare as would deny to the institution the good-
will and support of all parties, and he measured
party leaders largely by their spirit toward public
education. But you always knew where to find him
on election day and his political views were an open
book. If he had chosen the political career, it is
doubtful if any man since Vance would have held
to a greater degree the affection and confidence of the
people. He had a larger fund of anecdotes and more
humor than any public man of his generation and
could use a joke or a story to clinch an argument as
effectively as Vance. He was not unlike Bryan in
many things. I never heard him speak that I did
not recall the Nebraskan. Their resemblance probably
was chiefly in their faith in the people and their desire
to see that they get a fair chance and in their trans-
parent sincerity and honesty. He was quick to dis-
cern greatness in the men who came in the public eye
in State or Federal politics. In 1894, before Bryan
had become the leader of his party, Dr. Mclver saw
the greatness in him that the whole world now acknowl-
edges, and invited him to visit Greensboro and address
the College girls. Bryan was too busy to come if he
had to prepare a commencement address. "Come,'
said Mclver, "and speak on the silver question."
* * The friendship thus begun between these

two men who had much in common ripened into an

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affection that terminated only with the death of the
North Carolina leader while he was welcoming the
Nebraskan to the State. The eulogy of his dead
friend pronounced by Bryan was a fitting funeral
oration and will be read by generations yet unborn
and inspire them to emulate Mclver's life of service.

No life can be as noble as Mdver's unless it is
God-directed. As a boy he gave his heart to the Great
Teacher and always sat at His feet as an humble
learner. His religion had about it the sunshine of
gladness and was touched by no skepticism or bigotry.
Though the loss of a personal friend to
me is great and to the State beyond computation, I
can but feel that if one must die it is a blessing that
the summons should come in the full tide of useful-
ness, without the wasting by disease. I know that
he was ready — and when ' ' the clear call ' ' came to
him he was prepared "to meet his pilot face to face."

Not many months ago there came to Dr. Mclver a
great temptation — the supreme temptation of his life.
He had passed the forty-fifth year of his life and his
twenty-fifth year in the teaching profession and
poured himself into his work so completely that he
had not had thought of making money, and sometimes
he was oppressed by the thought that if his health
should fail he would have nothing to take care of
himself and his family. He was wont to say to his
friends that as a teacher grew older and needed larger
income, he could look forward to no increase in salary,
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was one that sometimes weighed upon his spirits. I
shall never forget a long conference in Raleigh
between Mclver, Joyner and myself that went far
past midnight, less than a year ago, when Mclver put
aside a temptation to make money that he might con-
tinue the great work to which he had consecrated his
life. An offer had come to him, an inviting offer,
from a commercial enterprise of standing to accept
an important position at a salary of $7,500 a year.
Before that, he had declined several nattering offers
to go to other States in the work of his profession.
But, when an offer at a salary of three times what the
State paid him was urged upon him by a broad-
minded business man who saw that Mclver 's ability
and energy would be a valuable asset, the duty of car-
ing for his family and providing for old age caused
him to give the proposition serious consideration. I
knew he would never yield to the temptation just as
I knew that most other men would have accepted the
offer without a moment's hesitation, and yet he was
troubled because he felt that his duty to his family
and to himself could not be easily put aside to serve
the State which paid him only enough for a omfortable
living. He said he wished Joyner and myself, whom
he esteemed as brothers, to advise him what course
he ought to pursue. He thought he was holding the
matter under advisement, but way down in his heart
there was a devotion to the higher duty that would
have prevented his acceptance of the business proposi-
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hundred dollars. He argued that, having given
twenty years to the public, the time had come when he
owed something to his family. Both Joyner and
myself argued that he would be happy in no other work
and the enlargement and growth of the College was
a greater service to his family than if he could give
them a million dollars. I shall never forget the reply
he made to our argument: "It is very well, boys,
for you both to tell me that I ought to stay and devote
my life to the work. You are serving the public also,
but Joyner owns property and faces no old age of
poverty, and every lick that Daniels strikes he is
adding value to his property that will give him an
income if his health fails and care for his wife and
children if he dies. I have not even a roof to my
head that belongs to me and not a brick of all that I
have builded is mine or could help my family if I
should die." I was ashamed then that I had dared
to put myself in the same class with him or to presume
that my service to the public weal was comparable
to his sacrifice. A silence fell upon us — the sort of
silence that only comes between men who understand
one another and love each other. He broke the silence.
He had gone through his temptation and his trial.
The advice he sought really had little to do with his
victory, for if every friend had advised him to leave
the work to which he had put his hand, he could not
have done it. He loved it better than anything except
his own flesh and blood. He thought he was consider-
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could have accepted it, though remaining at the post
of duty seemed to sacrifice his material interests and
prevented any provision for old age. And as I looked
Wednesday upon the splendid buildings he had
erected at the College, his words came back to me that
not one brick he had placed upon another belonged
to him or would help to support his family or care
for him in his old age. And yet, with that knowledge,
he put aside the natural desire of the husband and
father and threw himself into the work for humanity
with fresh zeal. The incident was closed. His con-
secration, new and complete, to his work gave him
joy and happiness. When he had met and conquered
the temptation to put making money in an honorable
way and for the highest purpose above the vision he
had seen and the duty he had accepted, there came
to him a peace and a purpose that gave him larger
vision and a higher ambition than he had hitherto
known, and when he died he was planning greater
things than his associates had dreamed he entertained.
There never was a time when the temptation to leave
his life-work could have moved him, but I have
thought how much richer his good wife and children
are because of his noble public service than if he had
turned aside to make money for them. They have in
the high purpose of his life the heritage of a love so
great as to find alone in perfect sacrifice to a great
and humane idea its best and final expression.

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GOVERNOR R. B. GLENN
Extract from Message to the General Assembly of North Carolina

In 1905, my predecessor, Governor C. B. Aycock,
announced to the General Assembly in his message
the loss by fire of the main building of the State
Normal and Industrial College ; but today I announce
a far greater loss than that of a few material buildings,
for I speak of the sudden and sad death of its founder,
mastermind, and beloved President, Dr. Charles D.
Mclver. The buildings could be and were rebuilt,
but the loss of Dr. Mclver can never be remedied or
replaced. He conceived the idea of erecting a college
for women, where they could be educated and trained
to be worthy wives, mothers, and teachers of North
Carolina's sons and daughters; and this splendid
normal and industrial Institution thus erected for
our women remains a monument to the devotion and
patriotism of this brainy and philanthropic man.
Educating, as it does, our women, can there be any
institution in all the State that will so commend itself
to you, and need I tell you that State pride demands
that we so maintain it as to give our girls the most
thorough mental and moral training and development ?
Carefully read the report of the Acting President,
and then have him and the Superintendent of Public
Instruction to come before your committee and go over
with them, what they request, and then vote this
College what you deem necessary for the proper
equipment and maintenance of an Institution whose
value cannot be estimated in dollars and cents.

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DR. C. ALPHONSO SMITH

In Raleigh News and Observer ,

* * Of all the men who have given directive

thought and constructive effort to the spread of educa-
tion in North Carolina, not one seems to me so
clearly born with a mission as Dr. Mclver. Though
there was sympathy in this man's heart for all high
undertakings and generous impulses, the education
of the boys and girls of North Carolina was always
first. Had you waked him up any night, however
laborious the day may have been, and hinted to him
some dimly formed plan by which you thought it
possible that the benefits of education might be given
to two instead of to one, he would have hurried with
you to his office and in utter forgetfulness of self
would have talked and worked and rejoiced until
morning and victory came together. Dr. Mclver and
his mission were one.

Among the multiple forces that guided and enriched
Dr. Mclver 's character, enthusiasm must be given a
primal place. It was an enthusiasm devoid of weak-
ness and not to be evoked except by the wide horizons
that beckoned to large achievements and to abiding
results. It was an enthusiasm based not on ignorance
but on faith in the supreme worth of education, on
hope for the better day that he saw dawning, and on
a love for North Carolina and her people that knew
neither variableness nor the shadow of turning.

Nothing great," says Emerson, "was ever achieved

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without enthusiasm." Let us teach this great truth
afresh in our schools, and let the name and fame of
Charles Duncan Mclver be our illustration.

His was a happy life, a life of ceaseless activity, but
filled and thrilled with an ideal, and ennobled by
fruitful and unselfish service. There is grief today
in many a home and school where the picture of this
dead leader looks down upon the embodied results of
his own heart and brain. But to all who knew him
there comes the thought of a great work nobly done,
and the inspiration of a far greater work that through-
out all the years his memory and example will help
to carry onward.

And thou, Greensboro, to thy trust

Eeceive and keep,
Keep safe his dedicated dust,

His sacred sleep.

So shall thy lovers, come from far,

Mix with thy name,
As morning star with evening star,

His splendid fame.

COL. PAUL B. MEANS
In Raleigh News and Observer

I was travelling home, by necessity, on a very belated
train last Sunday morning, and as I passed the State
Normal and Industrial College I thought of our dear,
very dear friend, Mclver, as a great man, and of his
great work for our State. But we apply the term great
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Luther, John Knox and Wesley ; the difference between
the first three and the last four being as wide as wide
can be. This is because there is no true standard among
men for greatness. But with God there is a fixed and
true standard. In the Bible, He continually gives us
examples of men great in His sight. And, therefore,
when I want to know how great any man is I just try
to see how far his life and character conform to those of
some man whom God plainly sets before us, in His
word, as great in His sight.

As I sat in that fast moving car, surrounded by
many people, but alone with my thoughts, and looked
out, ' ' through the rain and mist ' ' of the morning and
of my tears, on that wondrous work of Mclver's to
which God called him, as surely as he called St. Paul
as Apostle to the Gentiles, I mentally turned to the
Bible for Mclver 's prototype. Immediately I thought
of Stephen ; and, having my Bible with me, I investi-
gated the record on the train, after I had run out
the similitude mentally.

Stephen was the first Deacon. The duties of his
work were to minister unto "neglected" women, and
his work was especially the care of the poor and
needy women. Mclver's life-work was the same. He
preached and performed the gospel of education unto
the poor and for the poor. And O how gloriously he
did his work, from his first answer to God's call
in the campaign that he and Alderman made in 1889
for the cause of education, and woman's education
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he was the first President of North Carolina's first
great institution for the education of all women and
particularly the poor girls of our State. And he never
ceased his labors for this great cause, even after the
enormous responsibilities of the Presidency were cast
upon him, up to the very hour of his death. Like
Stephen he was advocating his cause till death came.

All the great factories, railroads and other institu-
tions of commercialism of our State pale into utter
insignificance when compared with the actual utility
and beneficence for humanity of the State Normal
and Industrial College for Women at Greensboro.
These great institutions are for time and earthly prog-
ress and prosperity only; Dr. Mclver 's work was
for all time and eternity and for heaven.

Stephen was "a man full of faith and of the Holy
Ghost."

Mclver 's fullness of faith is certified beyond all cavil,
by the existence today of the State Normal College.
"Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evi-
dence of things not seen. ' ' It stands and will ever stand
as "the substance of things hoped for" and prayed
for by Mclver. It is and ever will be "the evidence
of things not seen" by any one in North Carolina
until the Holy Ghost, the Spirit of truth, guided
him into "all truth" about it and revealed to his
seer-eyes the "vision splendid" as it stands today,
the supreme glory of our State, always to increase in
splendor as the ages go on. In this work and others,
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wonders and miracles among the people," in getting
them willingly and gladly to do what to others seemed
impossible, because "they were not able to resist the
wisdom and the spirit by which he spake."

"Full of the Holy Ghost." "We often looked in
wonder and amazement at the tremendous energy and
power and rapid action and movement of the man
mentally and physically. It was the Holy Ghost
urging him on. And joyously and brilliantly he
obeyed the impulse as does the morning star. He
wrought his "mighty signs and wonders by the power
of the Spirit of God. ' '

At the trial of Stephen "all that sat in the council,
looking steadfastly on him saw his face as it had been
the face of an angel. ' '

And so, also, many thousands of us, all over North
Carolina, have seen the face of Mclver shine "as it
had been the face of an angel," when he talked in
private and publicly of the great vision of his soul.
The man or woman who hasn't seen his face shine,
when they heard him talk, simply and sadly had
' ' eyes that see not. ' '

And we have no possible doubt that, when the silver
cord was loosed and the golden bowl was broken so
suddenly that day, on the great Bryan train, like
Stephen, he "looked up steadfastly into heaven" and
"saw the heavens opened and the Son of Man stand-
ing on the right hand of God;" and that the "Lord
Jesus received his spirit, ' ' and made his face resplen-
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Stephen was the first martyr to the cause of Chris-
tianity. Mclver was the first martyr to the cause
of education for women in North Carolina. His
strenuosity in this great cause, like Stephen's ardor,
zeal, fearless and defiant courage in his last great
speech prematurely produced his death as a sacrifice
on the altar of love for humanity.

By Stephen 's death all the disciples were ' ' scattered
abroad throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria"
— all Palestine. And they ' ' went everywhere preaching
the word. ' ' Stephen 's death caused a widespread and
effective "preaching of the word" that would not
then, at a critical moment, have occurred without it.
Mclver 's death has stirred all the true hearts of
North Carolina — the Palestine of America — for our
State Normal and Industrial College as nothing else
could have done. It has caused all our people to turn
their attention and fix their eyes and their hearts upon
this Institution with an affection and tenderness that
Mclver, with all his ' ' power, ' ' never could have done,
alive, and it has caused them to "purpose in their
hearts," as nothing else could have done, that this
State Normal shall forever be loyally supported and
sustained, as unique in itself for our commonwealth,
and as God's own work through His great child —
Charles Duncan Mclver.

And, finally, his death has carried the fame and
the glory of this Institution "abroad throughout all
the regions ' ' of our Republic in the sweet, soft tones of
sorrow and mourning, eternal as the song of the

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morning stars. And these results of his death, which
seemed an immeasurable catastrophe at the time, are
God's benedictions on Dr. Mclver as a veritable son
of His, just as we know that Stephen was. And the
fact of the conformity of his life and character and
death to the life and character and death of one whom
God selected and set before us as a great man in His
sight, is God Almighty's certificate to us of Dr.
Mclver 's greatness as a man and also of the greatness
of his work for North Carolina.

E. D. W. CONNER
In North Carolina Day Pamplet — Extract from Sketch

Today there are thousands of boys and girls in North
Carolina who are at school, and looking forward to
bright futures, because Charles D. Mclver was their
friend. They may never have seen him, and he may
never have seen them; but he loved them; worked
for them; spoke for them; wrote for them; fought
and won battles for them. His picture ought to hang
before the eyes of every school child in North Caro-
lina. His name ought to be on their tongues. They
ought to know by heart the story of his life. * *

The building of the State Normal and Industrial
College is the greatest work done in North Carolina
within the last twenty-five years. If Dr. Mclver had
done nothing else, this work alone would place him
among the greatest men of North Carolina. But he
did much more. Wherever there was a word to be
spoken in the cause of education, especially the educa-

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tion of Southern boys and girls, his voice was heard.
''No meeting of Southern educators seemed complete
without him; no educational program satisfactory
until his name appeared on it. " * * *

A few years ago several patriotic men from various
sections of our country, who are interested in South-
ern education, came together and formed the "South-
ern Education Board." Their purpose is to help
improve the rural schools of the South. Dr. Mclver
was one of the leading members of this board. When
the board decided to send speakers all over the South
to talk to the people about education, they put Dr.
Mclver at the head of that great work. . Perhaps no
man in our country did more for the education of
the boys and girls on Southern farms than he did.

Not only did he work himself, but he persuaded
many others, men and women, to fight for the cause
of the children. Proud of the fact that the first vote
he had ever cast was a vote for local taxation for
schools, by his great eloquence and earnestness he per-
suaded thousands of others to follow his example.
Local taxation for longer terms, better school-houses,
better teachers, and better supervision — this was
his plea. Eloquently, earnestly, and successfully he
pleaded the cause of the backwoods boy and the
cross-roads girl when they had no other powerful
friend to help them.

The news of Dr. Mclver 's death carried grief to
thousands who had known and loved him. Through-
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men who had been encouraged by his words and
inspired by his spirit felt a sudden vacancy in their
lives.

In his own beloved State grief was universal. In
every corner of North Carolina the news was heard
with bowed head and moist eyes. Men on the street
corners, women in the school-room, children in the
remotest rural district — all felt that the State had
suffered a terrible calamity. A partisan press in the
midst of a heated political campaign ceased their
warfare, and at his grave united in eulogy of the dead.
With one accord they mourned his death as the loss
of the State's most useful citizen. But no class of
our people felt his loss so deeply as the teachers,
whose greatest friend he was. Hundreds of teachers
caught from his presence a spirit that sent them to
their difficult tasks, from the college recitation-room
to the humble log-cabin school-house in the backwoods,
with hearts afire and souls inspired to give their best
to their country and to humanity, caring naught for
the vast personal sacrifices frequently involved.

MISS MARY FAISON DE VANE
To Duplin County Alumnae

What fortunate women we have been to have had
our college education guided by him !

In all the crowd of young women that gathered at
the Normal College, he knew the characteristics of
every one. He was a very close observer. Little in
outward appearance or character escaped his eye.

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Coming and going in a busy career he would invariably
surprise one with little remarks of personal interest,
regarding things that you would not have suspected
he knew or cared about. No matter was too small
for his attention. He was never too busy to help
any one. There were some things he always impressed
upon the students. He was a staunch believer in the
divine — in every man and woman. How many times
he reminded us of the obligation of wealth and posi-
tion ! Nothing was so repulsive to him as any assumed
superiority of one class of students over another. So
many times he would urge that there be no clans among
us, that all stand together for the good we could do
each other and the world, reminding us that both the
girl without so-called wordly advantages and the girl
with them, had each much to give the other. He
realized that in society woman leads rather a narrow
life regarding classes and that to make us as true and
good as we should be we must know more of all people.

How many times he talked about our giving our
services ! He urged us not to be mere consumers, but
to give back to the world all that we could — not like
sponges absorb and give nothing.

The love of his native State was a passion with him
and he taught us to love her as our mother and rever-
ence her accordingly — that the rich and poor among
us should give all we have to develop her people in
every way. We learned that no matter how fortunate
we might be in worldly possessions, we owed our per-
sonal effort as well as our money to our State.

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So many times he spoke to us of the dignity of
labor — how work well done aided the world in every
way.

His courage and endurance inspired every one with
whom he came in contact. Some serious situations
confronted the College during his administration and
in none of these did the students fail him. He
imparted to them his splendid spirit and they con-
fronted not only difficulties but calamities quietly and
courageously. The same spirit is helping them to fight
the battles of life today.

I would not neglect to speak of his brightness. The
time has not come with me when I can speak much
of this, but his presence gave sunshine wherever he
went.

One of the most striking characteristics of Dr.
Mclver was his high regard for woman. He had great
faith in her mentality and her virtues. His was not
the exterior gallantry in trifles, that counts with some,
but the true gallantry of the heart. He gave his life
to the uplifting of woman, for he believed that through
her would come the uplift of the State.

Prof. Claxton said in his telegram to Mrs. Mclver :
"Thousands whose life he helped will mourn his
death. ' ' We know four thousand whom he has helped
directly, and what shall we say of those numbers
indirectly aided? He was our champion in the legis-
lative halls of this State, and who will plead our cause
as he?

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Our noble chief, we loved him in life, and death

cannot take his spirit from us. We believe that his

great soul is safe in a higher world — that ' ' somewhere,

out of human view, whate'er his hands are set to do

is wrought with tumult of acclaim." His work here

is bequeathed to us. May we be worthy of it and

equal to it.

B. W. SPILLMAN

In Daily Record

In the death of President Charles D. Mclver there
passed away a man easily of national caliber and
whose fame had gone into every part of our country
where men keep themselves informed regarding the
educational movements of the country.

I have had occasion in recent years to visit twelve
state universities and a great number of colleges.
When men in these state universities and state col-
leges discussed matters educational in North Caro-
lina, the name of Mclver was almost without exception
the first to be mentioned. He made the educational
stock of North Carolina shoot skyward in the regions
beyond our State limits.

He made his own place and stuck to it. He was
loyal to his own State. He was truly an American
citizen. Thousands of our brightest men leave our
State every year. It is natural. The man ambitious
to do great things naturally moves toward the centers
of population.

The boy on the farm moves to the village; later to
the nearest town; then to the city. Dr. Mclver did

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not thus drift to the communities offering the oppor-
tunity. He created the opportunity and was master
of the situation. He made things come to pass.
He did things, he wrought well, he rests.

EEV. MILLARD A. JENKINS
In Raleigh News and Observer

Dr. Charles Mclver dead! Can it be possible
that this great-brained, great-hearted, open-handed,
sympathetic man is gone from us ? Gone so suddenly,
and at a time when he was so much needed ? No man
among us could be missed more. The girls struggling
for an education, who always found in him an
interested and sympathetic friend, will miss him. The
boys, ambitious to make something of their lives that
will count for God and the world's good, who never
sought his kindly advice and helping hand in vain,
will miss him. Every man who has ever come in con-
tact with his great and inspiring personality will miss
him.

While our hearts go out to the stricken home, and
the great school which his efforts founded and his
untiring labors established until it is now the pride
of every loyal North Carolinian, it is, moreover, a
sorrow in which all have our personal part, for Dr.
Mclver was "minister to every man."

Yes, Mr. Editor, as one who, in the younger days,
when the way seemed dark and discouraging, found
in him a struggling boy's friend, I gladly respond to

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the request to add my word of tribute to his honored
and blessed memory.

It was fourteen years ago. He was conducting an
institute at Asheville, N. C. I was there as a young
student, wondering if I should give up the fight, or
press on. I attended every one of his lectures. It was
a blessed ministry to me. I have felt the power of his
life from that day till this, inspiring me to make the
most of every opportunity, and to live, not for selfish
ambition, but for the little I might be able to add
towards making the world brighter and better for
others.

I shall never forget his gentle spirit, his whole-
some optimism, his thoroughly Christian enthusiasm,
his marked desire to fix in the minds of the young
men and women who sat under him high ideals of
life, the keen interest he showed in the individual,
helping him on the road to higher aspirations, and
especially shall I never forget how he took me by the
hand as kindly as a father, and spoke to me words of
encouragement which burned into my youthful soul,
gave me a new conception of life, and filled me with
resolutions, which not only strengthened me then,
but have had their share in helping me in many a
trying hour since.

Dr. Mclver never knew how much it meant to me
then, nor how much it has meant to me ever since.
He never knew that he really taught me what it meant
to live. But this is only one incident. There are
hundreds of others who might tell the same story.

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He had but one purpose, and to that purpose the great
and good man consecrated his life — that of inspiring
the youth of the land to lofty thinking and noble
living. His has been the guiding spirit that has led
many a young man and woman away from a meaning-
less life to a life of usefulness and happiness.

One of his favorite quotations was: "If we work
upon marble it will perish; if we engrave upon brass
time will destroy it; if we rear monuments they will
crumble to dust — but if we work upon the tablets of
human hearts, they will brighten to all eternity. ' '

This Charles Duncan Mclver did, honor to his name.

No, he is not dead. It can not be. Such as he can
never die. He took heaven at a bound, and now lives
in that new life, which, while here he lived in the faith
of it, he so beautifully exemplified. And though he
walks no more among us, though no longer we hear
his voice pleading for the better education of the youth
of our land, he lives. Charles Duncan Mclver lives —
lives in the hearts of the students he taught ; lives in
the hearts of the friends he cherished; lives in the
hearts of his fellow laborers for a better citizenry for
our noble State — yes, lives in the hearts of all North
Carolinians.

He has built his own monument, and one which
time shall not be able to destroy. We are the poorer
for his untimely going, but we are much the richer
for his having lived. How appropriate the words of
Psalm 21:4 — "He asked life of Thee. Thou gavest
it him, even length of days for ever and ever. ' '

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J. B. CARLYLE

In Wake Forest Student

Few men have exerted a larger or more enduring
influence on the life of North Carolina than Dr. C.
D. Mclver, whose useful career was ended by sudden
death on the 17th of September last. * * He
began his career, as many another country youth has
done, in the humble work of a teacher. But to him
the tasks of the teacher were radiant with the power
of a transforming vision. The right of the child to
the best possible training was burned into his soul
with the urgency of a heavenly call. Canvassing the
State, holding county institutes, he urged the people
to meet their duty in the education of their children.
Believing the supreme educational need of the State
to be better facilities for the training of women, he
directed his efforts to the establishment of an institu-
tion to meet this defect. The State Normal and Indus-
trial College for women at Greensboro was the result
of these efforts. In the beneficent work and high
ideals of this noble institution the spirit of Dr. Mclver
is fittingly embodied. But no one institution could
limit the interests and activities of a life on fire with
a passion for the education of all the children. Per-
haps to him as to no other is due credit for the
adoption of the principle of the local tax in North
Carolina's public educational system — a principle
which has been the keynote in the forward educational
movement of recent years.

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With the vision of a seer and the enthusiasm of
the crusaders of old, and yet with the cool, calculating
wisdom of a statesmanship that laid foundations for
the future, he planned and agitated and persevered
toward the goal of a commonwealth uplifted, broad-
ened and brightened by the general diffusion of
knowledge. He was in the best sense an educational
statesman.

Loyal friends will rear a bronze statue in his mem-
ory at the institution which he builded and loved,
but his real monument will stand perennial in the
grateful hearts of little children whose lives will be
enriched and brightened through agencies originating
in his fertile brain and benevolent heart.

The historian of the future, recording the names of
men who have given lustre to Carolina's fame and
made large contributions to the enrichment of the
life of her people, will place in the front rank the
name of Charles Duncan Mclver.

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CHAELES DUNCAN McIVEE
A KNIGHT OF YESTERDAY

List well to me and I to thee

Will sing a wondrous lay,
Of a good fight made by a knight —

A knight of yesterday.

No glittering armor did he wear,

No shining blade he bore;
But just as valiantly he fought

As those good knights of yore,
Who in the days of chivalry,

Had nobly gone before.

His foe was not of humankind,

His fight was not with man,
But 'gainst the power of Ignorance

He boldly raised his hand,
And right and left did smite amain,

And fearlessly did stand.

He strove that every little child,

Whate 'er its lot might be,
Should not in mental darkness dwell,

But look abroad and see
The beauteous light that knowledge gives,

And giving, makes man free.

And, God be praised, the yielding foe

He ever backward drove,
Nor turned aside nor e'er forgot

The end for which he strove,
Strong in the strength that always comes

From an abiding love.

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His life is done, his race is run,
No more for him the fray;

But in his sleep I pray God keep
This knight of yesterday.

-R. D. Douglas, in State Normal Magazine.

TO DE. C. D. McIVEE

Strong son of great old Tar Heel State,
For you in grief we bow the head
And place your body with the dead —

Oh, thus 'tis ordered us by Fate.

Well hast thou wrought within the space
Allotted thee within the sphere
In which we move from year to year,

Each striving by kind Heaven's grace.

Where once was only virgin soil

Now stands a monument to thee

For education of the free —
A glorious product of thy toil.

There is a higher realm for thee
Unknown as yet to mortal ken,
Thy spirit takes its flight from men

To live throughout Eternity.

— Gh, in The Trinity Archive.

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CHARLES D. McIVER

Yesterday he stood, master of men,
Strong in vigorous manhood, crowned
With every grace of mind. His soul 's
Clear eye, his steady hand alike
Knew duty's call. His thought, his life
Was ours, patriot, teacher, friend.

Daughters, who weep midst a thousand weeping women,
Son, whose father shall be revered by myriad sons,
Wife, whose faithful, happy days empowered his,
Thy grief is ours; Light he gave to us,
Would our bleeding hearts could strengthen yours,
Whose loss is ours and all's.

— M. J., in Raleigh News and Observer.

CHARLES DUNCAN McIVER

Rest, son of Carolina, sweetly rest,

The boon long self -denied now meetly thine;

Obedience yield we to the call Divine,

Our comfort this: — The Master knoweth best.

He knoweth best, yet sore we feel our need:

So great the void, we may not smile nor sing,

But, bowed in grief, our altar-gift we bring

And mid our tears look mutely up and plead.

Grant us with him to see where honor lies,

To build for God and man, and not for self,

To face the future with untroubled eyes

Intent on lasting service, not on pelf.

Thus life lives on its purpose to fulfil

When weary eyelids close and tired hands grow still.

— W. C. Smith, in State Normal Magazine.
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TO DR. McIVER

Sometimes a man dies old and full of years,
And men say: "It is best that he is dead,
His work is done; his labors now are past,
His influence was good, and well he lived.
But he had weary grown of earth, his place
Was filled by others. 'Tis best that he is gone."

Sometimes a man dies young — sometimes before

He reaches manhood, or plans his work,

And men say: " 'Tis sad that he is dead.

His work is scarce begun, if he had lived,

What influence for good he might have had!

He'd but begun to live: 'Tis sad that he should die. "

But sometimes in the midst of life's hard strife
When he has reached his prime, a man may die,
When all his work is planned and pointed out
To thousands. When he has 'complished much
And shown to others how to work and pray,
And carry on the work which he so well begun.

Then men will say: "A noble man is dead,
He lived his years so well that others may
Take up the work he left, and bless the man
Who pointed out such noble work to do.
His influence was felt by all he knew
And by all who knew some other whom he knew,
And will reach down time's tide through many years,
And bless the lives of thousands yet unborn."

And such a man is he of whom I write —
A man whose mighty heart has ceased to beat.
And though he died when life was at its height,
And when it seemed that he was needed most,
He lived illimitable years in deeds and worth,
And by these things a man is truly great.

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And while we mourn his loss we can but feel
That heaven was kind in lending us a little while
One of the noblest. And could we see beyond,
We might behold him in some fairer clime,
A grander work pursuing, while he waits
For those he loved and helped to follow on.

-Helen C. Hicks, in State Normal Magazine.

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CHARLES DUNCAN McIVEE
William C. Smith

From the Author's sketch appearing in the Biographical History

of North Carolina. Reprinted here, with changes, through the

courtesy of the publisher, Mr. Charles L. Van Noppen

One who labored steadfastly for the uplift of his
f ellowmen — such, in brief, is the life-history of Charles
Duncan Mclver. The spirit of unselfishness which
animated him, his whole-souled devotion to noble
endeavors, the efficiency of his labors and their endur-
ing results — are they not written in the foregoing
tributes from press and people? Numerous though
these tributes and various the sentiments expressed,
the testimony as to his efficiency is unanimous, — the
verdict is one : He was the State 's most useful citizen.
Thus the people whom he served bear record, and we
know that their record is true. It but remains to give
in outline the simple story of his useful life.

Born September 27, 1860, on a farm near Sanford,
in Moore County, North Carolina, Charles D. Mclver
early learned some of life's most wholesome lessons.
Economy, self-denial and bodily toil were his in early
youth and they continued to abide with him in the years
that followed.

The region around what is now the town of Sanford
was peopled largely by settlers whose ancestors came
from the Highlands of Scotland. Evander Mclver,
when eight years old, bade farewell to his rugged
birthplace, the Isle of Skye, and with his father made
his new home in the pleasant sand hills of North

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Carolina. In his son, Matthew Henry, the father of
Charles D. Mclver, were exemplified the many ster-
ling traits that history shows to be characteristic of
the Highland Scotch. Among these traits may be
mentioned earnest piety, devotion to liberty, respect
for law and order, and love for education. A success-
ful farmer, a respected elder in the Presbyterian
Church, a useful and influential citizen, he was an
admirable type of that class upon which in greatest
measure rests the stability of state and society. A
similar description applies to the maternal ancestors
of Charles D. Mclver, who were of Scotch and English
descent. To his mother, whose maiden name was
Harrington, and who on her maternal side is descended
from the McNeills of Scotland, the son ascribed the
formative and directive influences of his early years.
No small measure of the fruit of his useful life was
of seed of her careful sowing. Leal and true — these
Scotch and English ancestors. Decided in their convic-
tions on questions of church and state, yet tolerant
and charitable ; patriotically responding to the call of
the South in her hour of need, and bravely giving
themselves to the rebuilding of waste places in the
dark years that followed; fearers of God, and sup-
porters of schools and churches : — it is worth something
to be born in a community of which such men are
citizens and to reckon them among one's neighbors
and personal friends.

Amid the thrifty and orderly influences of this
Christian home and community, in attendance upon

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the excellent private schools of the neighborhood, and
in the daily performance of all the various labors
that fall to the lot of the healthy farmer boy, the
subject of this sketch spent the first seventeen years
of his life. Here were laid the foundations of that
vigorous health which enabled him to stand so well the
mental and physical strain of later years, and here
were implanted that love for man and nature, and that
intelligent and sympathetic appreciation of the needs
of our rural commonwealth, which proved valuable
forces in fitting him to become our most successful
leader in the great cause of universal education.

The fall of 1877 found our farmer lad enrolled
as a student of the University of North Carolina.
Mindful of the fact that there were other and younger
members of his family to be educated, and preferring
to meet his own expenses, he secured the necessary
funds through personal notes given to a near kinsman
and by his vacation earnings on the farm. Here he
spent four profitable years, graduating in 1881 with
the degree of Bachelor of Arts. In scholarship he
took high rank, leading his class in Greek and French,
and sharing with three others the honors in Latin.
He entered heartily into the new and wider life,
studied men as well as books, and soon became a leader
among his fellows. Among the students in attendance
upon the University at this period were some whose
later records are not unfamiliar to the people of North
Carolina, as the names of Aycock, Alderman, Dough-
ton, Gattis, Murphy, Strange and Joyner will indicate.

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The ties here formed lasted through life. His love
for Alma Mater was beautiful to behold. She has
enrolled no more loyal son. In the busy later years
he permitted no engagement to be made that would
prevent his attendance upon the annual commence-
ment exercises, and, with one unavoidable exception,
he was present at every commencement during the
twenty-five years that followed his graduation. He
often spoke of the debt of gratitude he owed to his
instructors, saying of one yet living, "No man can
come under his influence without being imbued to
some extent with State pride and tolerance and a
longing to be of some service to so good a State and
so great a people." And again, in referring to this
period of his life, he is quoted as saying: "Another
man to whom I am greatly indebted is my professor
of Latin, whose stimulating genius inculcates in
all the youth he touches self-reliance and the
audacity to undertake large tasks." State pride, a
longing to be of some service, the audacity to under-
take large tasks, — how well young Mclver learned
these lessons !

Undecided as yet upon his life work, he turned to
the profession of teaching, and in the fall of 1881
became assistant in a private school in Durham,
North Carolina. His ability won quick recognition,
and in the spring of the same scholastic year he was
made principal of the school. In May, 1882, he cast
his first vote, this being in favor of a local tax for
the support of the Durham public school system. The

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fact is worthy of record in that as a private school
man he voted for a measure which, though for the
public good, seemed decidedly against his own personal
interests. He assisted in the establishment of the
Durham Graded Schools, and, after serving them as
principal for one and one-half years, resigned to accept
a similar position and to perform a similar work in
the schools of Winston. Associated with him in the
organization of these latter schools was Dr. Calvin H.
Wiley, at that time chairman of the board of education.
It cannot be doubted that from this famous school man
the young teacher learned much that served to quicken
his interest in the educational life of his State. Here,
too, in the person of one of his assistants, he was
destined to find a co-worker who thenceforth became
the inspiration and benediction of his life. At
Winston he remained from February, 1884, until Sep-
tember, 1886, at which time he accepted a call to
Peace Institute, Raleigh, North Carolina, where, as
principal of the literary department, he remained until
June, 1889.

In the meantime he had fully decided upon his life-
work, and rejecting attractive offers of partnerships
in business and law, strove to make himself master of
his chosen profession — teaching. He put himself in
touch with the quickening forces of the time, and
sought to add to the strength of the old, the inspira-
tion of the new era. Visits of inspection were made
to schools of promise, and conferences sought with
able educational leaders. The ideas thus obtained were

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accepted, modified or rejected, as the actual work of
the schoolroom proved them valuable and practical
or the reverse. He early associated himself with the
North Carolina Teachers' Assembly as one of its active
members and supporters. The vacation periods of
every year were devoted to work in county institutes
and in State summer schools. In addition to his
labors as teacher and lecturer, he served as principal
of the State Summer Normal School at Sparta. While
thus availing himself of the means at hand to promote
the interests of public education, he was quick to
realize the inadequacy of the work as then conducted.

"The majority of teachers, " he reports in 1887, "cannot
go a great distance to attend normal schools. Small salaries
and short school terms render it in many cases impossible.
Efficient county institutes should be brought within the reach
of every teacher in the State. ' ' *

Here we have presented in few words the lines of
future educational reform. Institutes within the reach
of every teacher — will he do aught to accomplish
this? Larger salaries for teachers, a longer school
term, with the increased appropriations which these
imply and the higher professional equipment and bet-
ter service which they in turn demand — will he do
more than call the attention of the State Superin-
tendent to these needs? But we must not anticipate.

To the urgent need of better qualified teachers
those interested in education now began to give earnest

* Biennial report of State Superintendent of Public Instruction
1887-'88, page 40.

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attention. Through the agency of the Teachers'
Assembly, petitions for the establishment of a normal
training school were several times presented to the
Legislature — but without effect. Feeling that more
active steps should be taken, Charles D. Mclver, in
1889, made a stirring speech before his fellow educa-
tors at their annual meeting, which resulted in the
appointment of a committee, of which he was made
chairman, to appear before the Legislature at its next
session and personally present and urge the adoption
of a bill for the establishment of a training school
for teachers.

On a day agreed upon the members of the committee
appeared before the General Assembly, presented the
bill and advocated its passage. The chairman, being
at the time a resident of Raleigh, was in a position
to labor continuously in behalf of this measure of
which henceforth he was the recognized champion.
He met with little encouragement and with much
opposition, but so convincingly did he press home his
arguments in personal conferences with members of
the Legislature, that, to the surprise of all, the bill
passed the Senate by a large majority and failed in
the House by only a few votes.

Although the General Assembly did not at this
time provide for the establishment of a State Normal
College, it wisely transferred the appropriation
hitherto devoted to the eight Summer Normal Schools
to the maintenance of a system of county institutes.
Thus provision was made for carrying into effect

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the recommendation urged by our Sparta normal
school Superintendent of bringing institutes within
reach of every teacher in the State. Charles D. Mclver
and Edwin A. Alderman, then superintendent of the
Goldsboro Schools, were induced to take charge of
this work, and were therefore appointed State Insti-
tute Conductors.

Now began one of the most important campaigns
ever conducted in the State, and perhaps one of the
most interesting in the history of public education.
For three years, from September, 1889, to September,
1892, winter and summer, these men preached a
crusade in behalf of universal education. In every
county and in every important city and town in the
State, by lectures, by teaching, by public addresses,
by conferences with teachers and school committeemen,
by talks with farmers, editors, county officials and
politicians — by every approved method, in short,
known to advocate and reformer — the work was
diligently and vigorously prosecuted. The good
results of their labors are with us today, and will
continue to bless the commonwealth when we, our
children, and our children's children have finished
life's appointed lessons and put the books away.

"My work," declared the man whose career we are
following, "is conducted with a view to stimulating and
encouraging the teachers, and to making friends to the
cause of public education among the people. *

"My institutes last five days. The first four days are
devoted mainly to the professional work of the teacher.
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the public schools; on school organization, discipline, methods
of teaching, and methods of studying; on school law, and
on the proper use of the books on the State list. Friday,
the fifth day, is, in a special sense, 'People's Day.' The
school committeemen and people generally are urged to
attend, and the exercises are arranged with a view to
interesting and instructing them in the work of public
education. Besides various other exercises, a special address
is made on that day, showing the necessity for education
by taxation, and answering objections to it commonly heard
among the people. ' '

Amid the arduous duties of his campaign work the
necessity of a training school for teachers was not
forgotten. In truth, this may be reckoned one of the
means on which more and more he came to rely as
promising most surely to secure the great end he had
in view — universal education. Another problem now
presented itself, namely, where should volunteers for
this needful service be found in largest numbers, who,
when trained, would make the best and most sympa-
thetic instructors of the State 's children ? Wider and
more varied experience and a deeper insight into the
real sources of the mental and moral progress of the
human race convinced him that his syllogism, which
before had been — Education a State necessity, the
teacher the chief means of education; therefore, the
teacher a primary object of State concern, — might be
carried logically further and made to read : Univer-
sal education a necessity, woman the universal educa-
tor; therefore, the education of woman the founda-
tion of human progress.

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This advocacy of the more liberal education of
woman is shown not only in his public addresses of
that period, but in his written reports and recommen-
dations to the State Superintendent of Public Instruc-
tion. His report of June 30, 1890, contains this sig-
nificant utterance relating to the establishment of a
State Normal College :

"To those who are still skeptical as to the wisdom of the
training school movement, I would add one more reason
why the school should be established and be liberally sup-
ported by the State. Under our present system of higher
and collegiate education, a white girl, unless her father
is comparatively wealthy, cannot, as a rule, get the scholar-
ship necessary to make her a first-rate teacher. Her brother
can get it at the University and Colleges of the State,
because in those institutions about three-fourths of his
tuition is paid by the State and the churches. Up to the
present time the State and our leading churches have
adopted the suicidal policy of refusing to help educate
white girls, except in the public schools. * * *
The girls who would, if prepared, make the best teachers
for the State's children, cannot even get the scholarship
necessary to become teachers. One of the results of this is
that two-thirds of our public school teachers are men,
whereas two-thirds, at least, ought to be women. The State
appropriates nothing for the training of white women,
except the $4,000 for the institutes. It appropriates $8,000
to the training of colored teachers and uses it in helping
both sexes. In this way the State appropriates as much
to train one negro woman as it does to train four white
women, for there are about twice as many white as negro
women in the State. By the help of the State, the churches
and the philanthropists, a fair opportunity of getting an
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negro girl in North Carolina. Neither of the three has to
pay more than one-fifth of the expenses of tuition; but the
white girl must pay for every cent of hers. If the train-
ing school shall be established for white girls, it will make
education possible to thousands of girls who, under present
conditions, must grow up in a state of ignorance and
dependence worse than almost any other form of slavery.
In addition, North Carolina will secure teachers better
than she has ever had and who will bless her because she
has blessed them. "

His report thus emphasizes the justice and the wis-
dom of State provision for the higher education of
white women. An objection urged against the former
bill for the establishment of a teachers ' training school
was its co-educational feature. In 1891 Mr. Mclver
and his friend and associate, Mr. Alderman, were
again before the Legislature with a bill for the estab-
lishment of the much-needed institution, but this time
with the co-educational feature omitted. The bill
passed almost without opposition, and thus, more than
one hundred years after the University was chartered,
the State established its College for women. Of this
College the Board of Directors, consisting of one mem-
ber from each Congressional district, elected Charles
Duncan Mclver President.

Now it was that this people's servant sought to build
a people's college, not a thing of brick and stone,
but an institution both worthy of and representative
of the State that gave it birth. It should be an open
door of opportunity to every worthy white girl, how-
ever poor, however rich, within the borders of the

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Commonwealth — a means of fitting her for good and
useful citizenship. A woman's college for North Caro-
lina women it should be, characterized by sound learn-
ing, liberal culture, earnest living and high thinking,
but not by narrow specialization on the one hand, nor
by a profitless striving for showy accomplishments
on the other. The best that a State could give should
be theirs; the best that educated women could give
should be the State's. In this spirit was the North
Carolina State Normal and Industrial College con-
ceived, and in this spirit the Institution lived, grew and
labored, presided over, inspired, guided and led, by
one who freely gave to it all that man may give.

It is doubtful if any other public institution was
ever in so true a sense the product of the unselfish
love and labor of one man. As to him in largest
measure were owing its conception and creation, so to
him were due its internal and external workings, the
policy which characterized it, and the success which it
achieved. And this was true not merely in the
larger matters pertaining to its general management,
but in all the details relating to its work and adminis-
tration. The College plant and its equipment, the
departments of instruction, the courses of study, the
various organizations, the ideas for which the Institu-
tion stood, the spirit it exemplified, the work it sought
to accomplish, its relation to the public and the rela-
tion of the public to the College — all these, in a very
true sense, found in him their source and sustenance,
and this, not in a spirit of formal oversight and official

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dictation, but through the living spirit of creative
work and fellow service.

And to what extent were his ideas realized
and what fruit did his labors bear? Let him
answer who can estimate the value to State and Nation
of 3,000 women, who, in the short space of fourteen
years, availed themselves of the advantages thus
provided, and, with increased power of usefulness and
enlightened zeal for service, passed on teaching
lessons of right thinking and right living to more
than 200,000 North Carolina children. Let him con-
sider that the students came from every county in
the State, that they represented every respectable
calling, profession and industry and every form of
honest labor in which the people of North Carolina
were engaged ; that during the later years of his presi-
dency there was not a county in the State in which
representatives of the College were not to be found
actively engaged in public service; and finally, that
two-thirds of all the students enrolled and more than
nine-tenths of all who graduated became teachers in
North Carolina. A veritable fulfilling of his prophecy
this — education made possible to thousands, and the
State blessed in her teachers because she blessed them!

The hand and heart and brain of Dr. Mclver were
felt throughout the Institution, but most, perhaps,
in what may be called the spirit of the College. In
its life pulsed the vigor and strength, the patriotism
and helpfulness of the man ; about it lingered the sun-
shine of his optimism, and, infusing it all, were the

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dignity of serious purpose and the wholesome spirit
of a true democracy. His conception of what the
atmosphere of a college should be, he has given us in
his biennial report of 1902.

"The State/' he writes, "is always the gainer when its
teachers can be trained in an atmosphere of equality which
recognizes the worth of honest toil and faithful service
regardless of class distinctions of all kinds. The distinguish-
ing characteristic of Americanism is its theory, and I am
glad to say its usual practice, of giving to every man, woman
and child a fair chance in life. No board of directors and
no faculty or college president can force this spirit. They
can only adopt systems and policies that will tend to its
development.

"The worth of a strong college to a student is not, as
some suppose, the mere fact that it gives the opportunity
to a student to perform systematic literary tasks assigned
by teachers, or that it gives opportunity to work in labora-
tories and libraries. These are necessary and important,
but the student's greatest advantage at college is the
spiritual and mental atmosphere of the place. It is
intangible, but you can feel it. It can not be measured,
but its effect is everywhere manifest.

"The love of truth for truth's sake; the belief in equality
before the law; the belief in fair play and the willingness
to applaud an honest victor in every contest, whether
on the athletic field or in the class room or in social life;
the feeling of common responsibility; the habit of tolerance
towards those with whom one does not entirely agree; the
giving up of small rights for the sake of greater rights
that are essential; the recognition of authority and the
dignified voluntary submission to it even when the reason
for the policy adopted by the authority is not apparent; the
spirit of overlooking the blunders of others and of helping
those who are weak; the contempt for idlers and shirkers;

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the love of one's fellow-workers even though they be
one's rivals; patience in toil; self-reliance; faith in human
progress; confidence in right and belief in God — these are the
characteristics of the atmosphere of a great and useful
college. The young man or young woman who by associa-
tion with faculty and fellow-students becomes imbued with
these principles gains what never can be secured in the
same degree in the best homes or small schools, or anywhere
else except in a college."

We would willingly dwell at length upon this
phase of President Mclver's work, — on the intimate
relations he sustained to the State 's College for women,
and on the influences which through it he exerted
upon public education. What this virile man accom-
plished in supplying strength where of old existed
finishing-school superficiality, how he inculcated ideas
of service, how he made vital the conception of woman
as a citizen, how he diffused abroad a spirit of whole-
some democracy — and all this through constructive
labors, preserving, strengthening and multiplying the
influences that make for culture and true womanliness
— this, did space permit, we would willingly empha-
size. But the merest suggestion must here suffice,
while to the future biographer is left the fuller chap-
ters of this inspiring story.

Important as are these services, they constitute but
a part of the faithful labors which won for him State
and National recognition as an educational leader and
statesman. During his life-time, State appreciation
may be said to have been summed up in the following
sentences taken from an editorial appearing January

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24, 1904, in one of our leading North Carolina daily
newspapers :

"He has been a leading force in every movement looking
for progress, educational or otherwise, in North Carolina.
When the history of this decade is written, the story of
the public service rendered his State by Charles Duncan
Mclver will be one of the brightest pages in that splen-
did volume of patriotic achievement. There is not a man
in the State who has made himself felt so powerfully and
so helpfully for progress."

The national point of view may be taken as indicated
in an article on Public School Leaders appearing in
the July, 1905, magazine number of The Outlook.
Eelative to the topic under consideration, it says :

"In the Southern States there is no man better entitled
to be called a champion of the public schools, and of the
whole idea of popular education, than Charles Duncan
Mclver, of North Carolina. * * * He is a man of
intense earnestness, energy, insight and common sense.
For the past twelve years his voice has been raised in
behalf of popular education, not only in every county of
his own State, but throughout the South and in great
national assemblies. There is no abler speaker on this
subject than Doctor Mclver. He has been the soul of the
forward movement in his region, and he is now chairman
of the Campaign Committee inaugurated by the Southern
Education Board for the promotion of universal education. "

These are but two voices among many hundreds
which, separately during his life and in unison at the
time of his death, acknowledged gratefully the debt of
gratitude due this loyal leader for public service

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well and faithfully performed. Many of the edito-
rials appearing at the time of his death are included in
this volume and are to be found in that section of the
work devoted to tributes from the press. In the nature
of the case all could not be given since the writer
had access only to the papers that came to the College
reading-room. A glance at the names of these papers,
however, will indicate how truly representative they
are of the people Of North Carolina, and a reading of
the editorials will reveal how uniformly they voice that
people 's grief. With one accord they call him blessed.
"Every newspaper in North Carolina," says the
Richmond Times-Dispatch, made his death "the sub-
ject of an editorial eulogy and they vied with one
another in praising his character and his work. ' '

And what of the multitude of messages so patheti-
cally expressive of personal loss, those which speak
brokenly of lost counsellor, friend, brother, and
parent ? — Hush, let us pass on ! There is a grief too
deep for inspection, and this unveiling of the sorrow-
ing human heart may not be done even in a memorial
volume.

The wide variety of his public service is indicated
by the positions of honor and influence held by Doctor
Mclver in the course of his busy life. In addition
to the fourteen years of his college Presidency and
the work already referred to as Conductor of State
and County Institutes, Superintendent of Summer
Normal Schools, and Chairman of the Committee that
secured the establishment of the Normal and Indus-

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trial College, he was a participant in all the important
work of the North Carolina Teachers' Assembly and
its President in 1892 ; a worker in the Southern Edu-
cational Association and its President in 1905, and an
active member of the National Educational Associa-
tion, serving at various times as Chairman of its
Committee on Resolutions, member of its Committee
on Education and Taxation, President of its Normal
School Department, and member of its National Coun-
cil. During the administration of Governor Elias
Carr he served as proxy to represent the State stock
in the North Carolina Railroad Company. He was
one of the organizers of the Southern Education Board,
the efficient Chairman of its Campaign Committee, and
a leader in the movement for local taxation for public
schools throughout North Carolina. To him is owing
the organization of the Woman's Association for the
Betterment of Public Schools. He was a member of
the State Literary and Historical Association and
Vice-President of the State Library Association. A
loyal son of his Alma Mater, the University of North
Carolina, he served it officially as trustee and mem-
ber of its Executive Committee, and liberally and
heartily supported every movement for the promotion
of its welfare. In recognition of his public service
the University conferred on him the honorary degrees
of Doctor of Letters and Doctor of Laws. In present-
ing him for the latter degree, Doctor Charles Alphonso
Smith, Dean of the graduate department, said :

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"I have the honor to present * for the degree

of Doctor of Laws * Charles Duncan Mdver, Presi-

dent of the North Carolina State Normal and Industrial
College for Women. As State Institute Conductor from 1889
to 1892, he first showed himself peculiarly fitted to be a
moulder of educational thought. A firm believer in the
education of all the people, he has devoted his rare powers
of organization and appeal more especially to the education
of women. 'No State,' he declares, ' which will educate its
mothers need have any fear about future illiteracy.' That
this sentiment has at last found recognition not only in the
educational creed, but also in the educational policy of North
Carolina, is due more to Doctor Mclver than to any other
one man."

To add to this already long list the various local
organizations, city and county, to which he belonged,
such, for example, as the Young Men's Business
Association, the Industrial and Immigration Asso-
ciation, the Chamber of Commerce, the Guilford
County Board of School Improvement, and the North
Carolina Reunion Association — to mention all such
organizations and to specify the committees on which
he served would be to convert the latter part of this
sketch largely into a catalogue of society and com-
mittee names. Interpreted aright there is a profound
significance in this long array of social, industrial,
educational, business, literary and historical associa-
tions, since it indicates not only a healthful interest
in national, state and local affairs, but a wide and
intimate familiarity with the agencies of progress and
a whole-souled enlistment of his energies in all move-
ments that promised to promote the public good.

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It was as a public speaker and orator, perhaps, that
Doctor Mclver was most widely known to the general
public both in his own State and beyond its borders.
The demands thus made upon him were frequent and
at times almost continuous. It was his custom to carry
with him a pocket calendar on which were noted the
dates of promised addresses. When a new appoint-
ment was sought, he consulted his calendar, named the
nearest unfilled date, and thus, by an unending pro-
cess, added to what he called his ' ' incidental and vaca-
tion work." Appointments were often made several
months in advance and it was not unusual for him
to have every available date filled for six weeks in
succession. The acceptance of these invitations was
determined by the opportunity for service afforded
by the particular town, city or community from which
came the call. If any doubt arose, the chances were
nearly always in favor of the smaller and weaker
community, and the message was carried to the
few hundreds that gathered at the cross-roads store
or country church rather than to the larger number
who assembled in opera house or city hall. The mes-
sage, too, had reference to the needs and special con-
ditions of time and place, and thus constituted a sow-
ing of good seed in suitable soil, for it is safe to say
that Charles D. Mclver never addressed an audience
without having a distinct end in view and that end
the provoking to good works. There are few places
in North Carolina where his voice has not been raised
in behalf of some public measure. Large audiences,

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too, in great cities far removed from his native State,
greeted this educational leader, and from his lips
heard the inspiring story of our educational progress.
Thus he bore our message of hopefulness and good
will to more than one-half the States in the Union.

His favorite topics were, of course, those that
related to education, but as this is among the most
comprehensive of subjects, his addresses may be said
to have included a wide range of themes. He was
not a man to deal in generalities, but with a particular
purpose in view, selected a timely theme, appropriate
to a given audience, and sought by a clear and force-
ful presentation of facts to accomplish a definite
result. He would, for example, address a body of
lawmakers on the duty of the State to make liberal
provision for the education of its citizens — the citizens
themselves on the advantages of local taxation for
public schools. Or, the "Teacher as a Citizen" might
perhaps be the subject of a talk to teachers, and when
urged to repeat it before a general audience, he would
respond with an address on "The Citizen as a
Teacher." Although an interested student of our
past history, he seldom drew upon its storehouse for
the material of his public discourses, but preferred
to live in the present and in it find the chief objects
of public concern. With him the past was our herit-
age, the present our opportunity, and the future,
a result of the labors of today. To the work at hand
he therefore addressed himself, and though he some-
times saw visions, he never dreamed dreams. All

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his speeches, whether intended primarily for men or
women, and whether addressed to students, teachers,
civic organizations or to the general public, had this
one thing in common — they all, without exception,
emphasized the duty of public and community service.

While relying chiefly upon the power of the spoken
word as an agency in conveying his message to man-
kind, he was not unmindful of the influence of the
pen. Amid the duties of official life and the numer-
ous outside calls made upon him, he found time to
write much that is of more than passing value. His
newspaper and magazine articles, his educational cam-
paign documents and official reports, and his speeches,
revised and prepared for publication, these, if gath-
ered together, would doubtless comprise several goodly
volumes, and would constitute a valuable addition to
the literature relating to educational and civic ideals.
His writings, like his speeches, are clear and force-
ful discussions of topics pertaining to education and
public service.

The life here sketched would seem to leave little
opportunity for the enjoyment of the quieter pleasures
of home, and the leisure and happiness which home
suggests. But the life here sketched is but the outer
and visible workings of an inner life which found its
center in the home and family. In Miss Lula V. Mar-
tin, of Winston, North Carolina, Charles D. Mclver
found a life companion whose Christian graces of
character and powers of intellectual sympathy ren-

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dered her the truest encourager of his efforts and the
wisest judge and rewarder of his success.

She it was who first directed his attention to the
inadequate facilities for woman's education in North
Carolina and to the total neglect on the part of the
State to provide for its daughters what it had long
since wisely provided for its sons. Under her influence,
at a teachers' institute held in Winston, in the sum-
mer of 1885, he made his first public speech in behalf
of the higher education of women. Together they
formulated the plan which was to right the wrong
so long existing; together — for she, too, was engaged
with him in institute work — they presented that plan
to the people of North Carolina; and together they
labored for the accomplishment of their ideal now so
happily embodied in the State Normal and Industrial
College.

The marriage of these educational co-workers took
place in 1885. Four children, a son and three daugh-
ters, added happiness to their union. A simple home
was his, blessed by generous affection and pervaded
by an atmosphere of hospitality and genial courtesy —
a home where culture and quiet refinement were justly
esteemed and where trust in God and faith in human-
ity remained unquestioned and sincere. His religious
faith was that of the Scotch Covenanters, adhered to
in its simplicity, but lived in the spirit of Christian
rather than of sect. He amassed no wealth, yet none
could call him poor, for love and confidence were his
in fullest measure and he left to his family and to

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the people whom he loved and served a priceless legacy
of good works, a heritage to all that survive him and
to thousands yet unborn.

Twenty-five years have elapsed since, diploma in
hand, Charles D. Mclver passed from college halls
into the larger school of life. And life itself grew
richer with his coming, and so remains and will remain
though he that led us has entered into rest. He
accomplished much and in the doing of it taught us to
demand of him and of ourselves and of all men —
more. This, we suspect, is as he would have it, for
his message to his fellow man rings clear and true:
Live more abundantly through more abundant service,
striving hopefully for the larger things of life.

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A NOBLE CAREER ENDED— Page

Press Correspondence by Andrew Joyner 7

Daily Industrial News 9

Greensboro Record 12

Greensboro Telegram 14

A NOBLE REQUIEM —

Daily Industrial News 16

Eulogy by Hon. William Jennings Bryan 17

Greensboro Record 27

Greensboro Patriot 28

LAID TO REST —

Raleigh News and Observer 30

Greensboro Telegram 31

Daily Industrial News 31

Funeral Sermon by L. W. Crawford, D. D 33

PRESS TRIBUTES —

Greensboro Telegram 43

Weekly Tar Heel 44

Raleigh News and Observer 44

Charlotte Observer 45

Charlotte News 47

Wilmington Messenger 47

New Bern Journal 48

N. C. Journal of Education 50

Asheville Citizen 52

Durham Sun 54

Charity and Children 54

Kinston Free Press 55

Webster's Weekly 56

Lexington Dispatch 57

Charlotte Chronicle 57

Winston Sentinel 58

Mocksville Courier 59

Raleigh Times 59

North Carolina Baptist 60

Salisbury Post 61

Concord Tribune 61

Biblical Recorder 62

Everything 62

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PRESS TRIBUTES — Continued— Page

Winston- Salem Journal 63

Duplin Journal 65

Daily Reflector 66

Orphan's Friend and Masonic Journal 66

Statesville Landmark 67

Maxton Blade 69

Christian Sun 69

Raleigh Christian Advocate 71

Chapel Hill News 72

Union Republican 72

Trinity Chronicle 72

Warrenton Record 74

Scottish Chief 74

Elm City Mirror 74

Durham Recorder 75

Progressive Farmer 76

Roxboro Courier 76

Henderson Gold Leaf 77

The Caucasian 77

Tarboro Southerner '. 78

Smithfield Herald 78

Newton Enterprise 78

Catawba County News 79

Scotland Neck Commonwealth 79

Mooresville Enterprise 80

Gastonia News 81

Elkin Enterprise 81

Presbyterian Standard 82

Reidsville Review 82

Hertford Herald 83

Waynesville Courier 83

News Reporter 84

Monroe Journal 85

Polk County News 86

Daily Industrial News 86

Deaf Carolinian 89

South Atlantic Quarterly 90

University Magazine 96

Wake Forest Student 99

Guilford Collegian 99

Religious Herald, Richmond 103

Richmond Times-Dispatch 106

Columbia State 109

Baltimore Sun 110

Southern Workman Ill

Educational Exchange, Alabama 113

Louisiana School Review 113

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PRESS TRIBUTES — Continued — Page

The Commoner, Nebraska 115

New York Times 116

Little Rock Gazette 118

Review of Reviews 119

The Outlook 122

World's Work 124

MEMORIALS and MEMORIAL EXERCISES —

Normal College Memorial Exercises. Program . . 127

Impressive Exercises, Daily Record 128

Introductory Remarks, Acting President Julius I. Foust. . . 129

Invocation, Rev. Henry W. Battle 130

Address, Dr. Edwin A. Alderman 132

Dr. George T. Winston 148

Dr. F. P. Venable 149

Dr. James E. Brooks 151

Miss Mary K. Applewhite 154

Hon. J. Y. Joyner 157

Statue in Bronze, Governor's Proclamation 163

Mclver Loan and Scholarship Fund 164

Mclver Memorial Day 166

Public School Memorial Exercises. Program 167

University of North Carolina 168

Davidson College 169

Wake Forest College 171

Trinity College 171

Guilford College 172

Whitsett Institute 173

Oak Ridge Institute 174

Oxford Seminary 174

Peace Institute 176

Duplin County Alumnae 177

University Alumni, Wake County Association 178

Guilford County Association 179

Salisbury Graded Schools 179

Transylvania County Teachers 180

Graham Graded School 180

Wake County Teachers' Association 181

RESOLUTIONS —

Normal College Directors 182

Faculty 184

Adelphian Society 185

Cornelian Society 186

Young Woman's Christian Association. . . . 188

Senior Class 188

Junior Class 189

Sophomore Class 190

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RESOLUTIONS — Continued — Page

Henderson Graded Schools and Citizens 190

Former Students of Hickory 191

State Primary Teachers' Association 192

University Dialectic Society 194

Greensboro Chamber of Commerce 194

Masonic Lodge, Winston 195

A. and M. College for Colored Race 197

Conference for Education in South 198

Committee on Pastorate, Presbyterian Church 199

Daughters of Confederacy, Guilford Chapter 201

North Carolina Library Association 202

Greensboro Public Library 203

Daughters of American Revolution, Waynesville 203

Buncombe County Alumnae Association 204

Woman's Club, Goldsboro 205

Junior Order, Greensboro Council 206

Wilson County Alumnae 207

Maxton Graded Schools 208

Manndale Institute 209

McDowell County Board of Education 210

Tryon School 211

N. C. Children's Home Society 212

PERSONAL TRIBUTES —

J. D. Murphy 214

Josephus Daniels 219

Gov. R. B. Glenn, Message to General Assembly 235

Dr. C. Alphonso Smith 236

Col. Paul B. Means 237

R. D. W. Connor 242

Mary Faison De Vane 244

B. W. Spillman 247

Rev. Millard A. Jenkins 248

Dr. J. B. Carlyle 251

Verse, R. D. Douglas 253

"G.", Trinity Archive 254

"M. J.", Raleigh News and Observer 255

W. C. Smith 255

Helen C. Hicks 256

Biographical Sketch, by W. C. Smith 258

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